Paris Echo is the story of two people looking to discover the “secrets” of their past in order to understand and resolve their present-day inner conflicts. A young man leaves his Algerian life for Paris in his search for adventure, meaning, and love while a middle-aged American woman revisits the City of Light to study the lives of Parisian women during World War II. Set both in the past and the present, Faulks weaves a historically accurate picture of French behavior during the World War and the subsequent Algerian War. As Tarik and Hannah’s personal relationship grows, so does their understanding and acceptance of themselves and their personal histories, which leads to the story’s masterful conclusions.