Book description
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning
rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living
permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific
laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that
nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is
Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected -
inventors of the twentieth century.
The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of
the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when
sinister forces are closing in on him. As well as being an engaging
literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story
of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and
redemption of one ordinary family...
Samantha Hunt's fiction has been published in the
New Yorker
and
McSweeney's
and she is also author of the novel,
The Seas
. She received the '5 under 35' award from the American National Book
Foundation in 2006 and currently teaches writing and bookmaking at the
Pratt Institute.
