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The Grounding Wire: An Electrical Engineer's Guide to Parenting, Power, and Parallel Processing
Paperback
Series: The Electrical Engineer Novel, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Grounding Wire: An Electrical Engineer's Guide to Parenting, Power, and Parallel Processing
For those who learn that the most important connections can't be soldered.
Gary Volt is a professional electrical engineer and an amateur father. He lives by spreadsheets, optimization, and the laws of physics. But when his eight-year-old daughter, Tesla, starts diagnosing ground loops in the refrigerator before breakfast-and his five-year-old son, Maxwell, collects ordinary rocks and insists they can see-Gary realizes his biggest challenge isn't grid stability. It's parenting.
The Grounding Wire is a warm, witty, and unexpectedly moving novel about a family wired differently. Through science fair disasters, sibling short circuits, and birthday-party protocols, Gary learns that love doesn't follow Ohm's law. Some connections can't be calculated. And the most important circuits aren't made of copper-they're made of chaos, pancakes, and the courage to be weird together.
Perfect for fans of Wonder, The Rosie Project, and anyone who has ever tried to measure the unmeasurable-this book will remind you that the best systems aren't perfect. They're just connected.
Key themes: Parenting, neurodiversity, family life, love as a design parameter, and the beauty of good-enough.
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