Thoughtful and haunting - this wasn't the novel I thought I was going to read when I first picked it up. It is a road trip story but also a story about history and memory and names.

Of the many interesting aspects there are to discuss in this novel, one that continually came back to me was the way Luiselli used echoes as a consistent metaphor. Echoes permeate every difficult corner of this novel and managed to ground me during certain puzzling sections.

Highly recommended.