Not Only The Things That Have Happened

A woman relinquishes her four-year-old son to tourists passing through town. Losing him she loses the story of her future. A world away from her the boy becomes a man without the story of his past. Decades on the mother struggles on her deathbed to find the story that will release her from life; the son's struggle is for the story that will allow him to live.

Not Only the Things That Have Happened is a novel about the stories that make us and break us and then remake us.