By itself, such behavior singles him out. While in the street or in the schoolyard, he cannot stop his hands from flying upward to guide a music only he can hear.
Twelve-year-old Friedrich, growing up in Germany during the years of Hitler’s rise to power, dreams of being a conductor. In “Echo,” a harmonica travels across years and over continents and seas to touch the lives of three embattled, music-obsessed children - and, quite possibly, save a life. Or with words like magic, power or beauty.Īfter reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s enchanting new novel, you’ll never think of a harmonica the same way again. But it’s not a serious instrument, not something you’d associate with real music. Or being played by a convict in an old jailhouse movie as he lies on his bunk. We can probably all picture one in the hands of some 4-year-old, pressed to the child’s lips as she makes a wheezy, buzzy racket.
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