A Beginner’s Guide to Electricity

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A modern psychedelic Tom Sawyer-type named Radkin runs away, after scaring his parents by phoning them from his college dorm- while tripping on mushrooms- to tell them how very, very much he loves them. After ducking their attempt to take him home, Walter joins a jam band called the Funnybones, ponders the electrical charge that animates all mankind, changes his name to Radkin for voltage-related reasons, searches for a covalent female, volunteers at a remote Caribbean turtle preserve, learns to grow pot, gets involved with cocaine dealers, gets his heart broken, lives under an overpass, works for a veterinarian, teaches a bluegrass band to improvise, and gives piano lessons to a retired psychiatrist. The psychiatrist is building a nursing home in the very same forest where Radkin grows his crop. When a hapless DEA agent is assigned to investigate a suspicious thermal image suggesting a patch of illegal cannabis, Radkin and his piano student find themselves in a bind.

A Beginner's Guide to Electricity is literary fiction for boomers, freaks, Deadheads, environmentalists, artists, musicians, and those who love language. The style is influenced by A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole, Been Down So Long Looks Like Up To Me by Farina, The Fan Man by Kotzwinkle, and Inherent Vice by Pynchon.