Our Bodies Electric, although set in the 1990s, brings to light a range of issues faced by teenagers today, from sexual orientation to gender identity, and from questioning of religious authority to breaking free from social conservatism. Our Bodies Electric is an ambitious novel that pushes the limits stylistically of what is possible in YA literature. Our Bodies Electric stages an in-depth intertextual conversation with Walt Whitman, demonstrating the ways in which older literary texts continue to speak to us and influence the way we see the world around us today. Our Bodies Electric is a comic novel that follows a group of teenagers as they rebel against their conservative community and begin to celebrate themselves while enjoying a series of rollicking hijinks. Through short chapters, each providing a touching and hilarious snapshot of a teenage boy' s maturation process, Our Bodies Electric offers young readers hope for how to overcome the traumas of a conservative, religious upbringing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Euphoria, Our Bodies Electric tells the story of a thoughtful and sensitive teenage boy who struggles to grasp the meaning of his own nascent sexual desires.