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Upstate NY, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk from this stunning landscape emerged the creation of a fresh world of knowledge. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the head office of a major manufacturing company, providing the city its nickname: Electric City. The optimum of Autumn, 1919: The pull of scientific finding brings Charles Proteus Steimetz, a brilliant mathematician and recent arrival from Ellis Island, to town. His potential to fully capture lightning in a container earns him the name "Wizard of Electric City." Barely four feet extra tall with a deeply curving spinal column, Steinmetz's physical deformity belies his great intellect. Allied with his Mohawk good friend Joseph Longboat and his used eleven-year-old granddaughter Midget, the breakthroughs he makes in Electric City will, quite simply, change the world. The optimum of Autumn, 1965: Sophie Levine, the little girl of a company man, one of the many researchers working at THE BUSINESS, whose electric brand can be seen from everywhere around. Her family escaped European countries just before World Warfare II, leaving behind a wake of annihilation and persecution. Ensconced in Electric City, Sophie is approaching of age just like the city is gasping its last breaths. The town, and America all together, is on the cusp of great instability: blackouts, communal unrest over Vietnam, and soon the introduction of the seventies. Into her orbit drifts Henry Truck Curler, the popular son of 1 of Electric City's founding Dutch households, as well as Martin Longboat, grandson of Joseph Longboat. This new technology of Electric City will face both background of their town and their own uncertain future, struggling to bridge the gap between the old world and the new. Electric City is a vital, pulsing, epic book of America, of its great medical ingenuity and its emotional ambition; the one which frames the birth and advancement of its towns against the battles of its indigenous tribes, the immigrant experience, a country divided, and the technological breakthroughs that ushered in today's world.
