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Some things a man carries for decades before he knows how to put them down. In the summer of 1969, Tom Briggs wades into the Escanaba River one last time before shipping out to Vietnam. He carries his father's folding knife, his father's instruction - pay attention - and very little else. In the barracks at Fort Benning, he meets Danny Reyes: a cook from San Antonio who talks to photographs of his family, plans a restaurant he intends to open when the war is over, and teaches Tom that a friendship can be built out of carnitas recipes, bad harmonica music, and the specific patience required to wait for something you love. What follows is a novel about what happens after. Tom comes home from Vietnam carrying something he cannot name and cannot put down. He builds a life - a job at the paper mill, a marriage, two daughters who learn to read his silences - but for seventeen years he carries it. Until the winter day he drives alone to Washington, D.C., to find a name etched into black granite, and finally touches it. Echoes of the Living is a novel about war, but more essentially about time. About the long years of work and marriage and fatherhood that follow a loss. About the moment when grief becomes something a man can carry differently. For readers of The Things They Carried, A Piece of Cake, and Ordinary Grace - a quiet, serious, deeply felt novel about friendship, memory, and the long road home. Perfect for book clubs. Discussion questions available on request.

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