Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and the Oprahs Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powerss The Echo Maker a powerful novel about family and loss. Wise and elegant . . . The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition . . . Powers accomplishes something magnificent. Colson Whitehead The New York Times Book Review On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road twentysevenyearold Mark Schluter has a nearfatal 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 womanwho looks acts and sounds just like his sisteris really an imposter. When Karin s 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 Marks 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. show more