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The Echo Maker
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Powers
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Medical Fiction,
- Nebraska
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological fiction exploring identity and memory disorders
- Family dramas set against stark Midwestern landscapes
- Stories where medical mysteries collide with personal secrets
Winner of the National Book Award.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's The Echo Maker, a powerful novel about family and loss.
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman—who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister—is really an imposter.
When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark’s accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition.
In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists.
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