Electrical Storms

Chicago, 1960s: In their suburban home, Vinnie Rabb and the Kensington Krazies listen to Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, discover love and sexuality, and try to escape the adult world and the specter of the Vietnam War… Until the day when one of them is brutally murdered in front of their eyes. Until the day when one of them is brutally murdered before their very eyes, everything changes. On the ruins of lost innocence, those who remain have but one obsession: justice in their own way and atonement for their guilt. The violence escalates, gripping, implacable, underlined by a few moments of pure tenderness. In this first novel, David Homel holds up a mirror to an America he knows well, to a generation that is his own, reflecting their delusions, their hopes and their contradictions.