Electric City: A Novel

Spanning two generations and nearly half a century, the stories of a genius immigrant mathematician, a coming-of-age daughter of refugees, and the indigenous Mohawk people whose land became the birthplace of modern electricity are woven together to create an epic American novel about ingenuity, displacement, and the cost of progress

Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk —from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world ...