New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First edition - The author's second novel, a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize (Her first novel won the National Book Foundations Five under Thirty-five prize) Set in Manhattan in 1943, where the inventor Nikola Tesla, living on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity, is befriended by a young chambermaid. A combination of history, biography, and fantasy. Notes. 257 pp.