The Echo Maker. Richard Powers

OnawinternightonaremoteroadinNebraska,twenty-seven-year-oldMarkSchluter'struckturnsoverinanearfatalaccident.Hisoldersister,Karin,hisonlycloserelative,returnsreluctantlytotheirhometowntonurseMarkbackfromatraumaticheadinjury.Butwhenheemergesfromaprotractedcoma,Markbelievesthatthiswoman-wholooks,acts,andsoundsjustlikehissister-isreallyanidenticalimpostor.Shatteredbyherbrother'srefusaltorecogniseher,KarincontactsthecognitiveneurologistGeraldWeber,famousforhiscasestudiesdescribingtheinfinitelybizarreworldsofbraindisorder.WeberrecognisesMarkasaveryunusualcaseofCapgrassyndromeandiskeentoinvestigate.ButwhathediscoversinMarkbeginstoundermineevenhisownsenseofself.Meanwhile,Mark,armedonlywithanoteleftbyananonymouswitness,attemptstolearnwhathappenedonthenightofhisaccident.Thetruthofthateveningwillchangethelivesofallthreebeyondrecognition.SetagainstthespectacularspringmigrationsofAmericanSandhillcranes,"TheEchoMaker"isaprofoundandrivetingnovelthatexploreshowmemory,instinctandrelationshipsmakeuswhoweare.