Not Only The Things That Have Happened English 2012

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. The novel takes place over a thirty-six hour period travelling between far-flung places characters the past and the future. Time is a character here revealing that though the story of our present is always told for us the story of the past and the future is ours to tell.