The Body Electric

Thomas Finnegan Finn McGuinn has it all: an adoring wife loyal friends a childhood bestie named Beannie year round sunshine a car that starts an absolutely bitchin record collection a mountain bike soft trails to run on and a community that delivers. But when a thunderstorm blows his life apart he finds himself with a life-threatening compulsion and an affliction that prevents him from physical contact with others. Told across multiple timelines from theperspectives of various characters the reader encounters runners painters polyamorous pastry chefs and lesbian punk rockers who populate the lives of our lovers creating a kaleidoscopic world Finn longs to reenter. The Body Electric tells the story of glorious young love the cruelty of fate of a psyche dealing with catastrophic loss in mystifying ways. It shows how lightning in the form of random encounters can strike twice and perhaps reanimate a character who has become more lifelike than truly alive.