Publisher's Synopsis
Anything goes in this eclectic collection by the author of Those Who Walk in Darkness and its sequel, The Abyss Between Dawn and Night. Poignant fiction intertwines with humorous recollections in settings that range from antiquity to the present. Loving memories of growing up in Chile in the 1950s and 1960s segue into such far-flung subjects as intelligent design, nine-eleven, and early pioneers in Israel. Locations vary from Boston and New York to ancient Rome and modern Jerusalem.
Echoes and Markings' colorful gallery of characters range from the zany to the sinister, the naive to the devious. You will meet a philosopher whose job is to remind people of their mortality, a fifteen-year-old boy who has a fight with his father on Yom Kippur eve, a Chilean political refugee in New York whose only ambition is to have a bathroom of his own, a jumbo-sized salesman who sells through intimidation, an ultra-orthodox Jew who has built a wall between his religious and business practices, and many others.
Echoes and Markings' vignettes, memoirs and stories are rendered with keen sensitivity. Even the book's least likeable characters exhibit deep humanity, compelling us to understand them and ultimately to love them.
