With glowing reviews from the likes of Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist, Christina Nichol shares Waiting for Electricity, a gleeful picaresque, a hilarious satire, and a work of extraordinary empathy and imagination. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan, this is a marvelously imaginative debut novel you won't want to miss.