The Electric Hotel

From the author of The Lincoln Highway, The Electric Hotel is a captivating historical fiction that explores the early days of cinema through the intertwined lives of a silent-film director and his muse. Spanning Paris, Fort Lee, and Los Angeles, the story shifts between past and present, revealing the rise and fall of a pioneering film studio and the obsession that drove its creator. As a film-history student interviews Claude Ballard about his lost masterpiece, memories and artifacts from his storied past come to light.