After his bestseller 'The Sound of Time', Richard Powers explores what holds families together at their core: the fragile web of emotion and memory. The poignant story of a sibling pair and a panorama of contemporary America come together in his new major novel. Kearney is the geographical center of the USA - and the middle of nowhere. On a winter night, Mark has a car accident. When he returns to life, he mistakes his sister Karin for a hostile doppelgänger. She, on the other hand, tries everything to enable him to lead a normal life. In a moving journey into the heart of a family, Richard Powers introduces us to the greatest storyteller: our memory. It creates the echo of our lives that carries us, envelops us, and sometimes deceives us cruelly.