![]() ![]() Although many events are drawn from Tesla’s life, he and his peers, including Thomas Edison and John Muir, are cartoonish. ![]() Assisting in the scheme is Louisa’s mysterious beau, Arthur Vaughn, who may or may not be from the future. ![]() The book alternates between Niko’s reminisces of turn-of-the century Manhattan and Louisa’s current domestic dramas Niko revisits old grievances concerning the usurpation or dismissal of his many inventions, and Louisa gets ensnared in her zany father’s mission to travel back in time and reconnect with his dead wife via a time machine built by his lifelong friend Azor Carter. He forges an unlikely friendship with Louisa Dewell, a 24-year-old chambermaid at the hotel who also keeps a pigeon coop. ) overstuffed and uneven novel set in New York, circa 1943, an aging Nikola Tesla lives at the Hotel New Yorker and cares for (and chats with) pigeons while planning what could be his boldest invention yet. ![]()
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