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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven year old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident—armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness.
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“Fascinating…In the end we see what Powers, with his beautiful language and broad reach, always wishes to have us see: the eternal mystery of human personality and how it functions in the extreme drama of the modern world.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“[Powers’] characters are unforgettable, flesh-and-blood individuals as finely drawn as those of any contemporary fiction writer.”
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“A grand novel—grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand in its patterning.”
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“MacArthur fellow Powers masterfully charts the shifting dynamics of Karin’s and Mark’s relationship, and his prose—powerful, but not overbearing—brings a sorrowful energy to every page.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“A remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it.”
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“Powers has once again shown his formidable literary talent.”
— Bookmarks
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A 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction
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Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction
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One of the 2006 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction
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About Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of a dozen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a four-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He is a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
About Bernadette Dunne
Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.