A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ELECTRICITY
A modern psychedelic Tom Sawyer type named Radkin runs away from home, to seek his muse by writing a book just like he would build a fireplace, a sturdy structure in which to conjure a flickering warmth to enchant a lady. It takes awhile. He crisscrosses Appalachia in an Econoline van with a steam engine styled band, volunteers at a turtle preserve in the Caribbean, and is hired as night watchmen at a veterinary hospital in Vermont where he grows pot in an adjacent forest. He also gives piano lessons to a retired mafioso psychiatrist, Dr. Zuckerman, who has hired a mercenary lawyer- and his young associate- to help him build a state of the art nursing home in the same forest where Radkin grows his crop. When a bumbling DEA agent is assigned to investigate a suspicious thermal image suggesting a patch of illegal cannabis, both Radkin and his piano student find themselves in a bind…ABeginner’sGuide to Electricity is literary fiction for boomers, freaks, Deadheads, environmentalists, artists, musicians, and