Things I Didn’t Do

"No contemporary novelist renders the apostates and patriarchy of the American West with more life and depth than Karin Anderson."

--CHARLIE QUIMBY, author of Monument Road

What makes us who we are? Karin Anderson's follow up to her award-winning novel What Falls Away is tour-de-force of character--an intimate and epic reckoning with past, place, and the people who shape the course of our lives.

It was the day that changed Ryder Mickelson's life: the day he fell from a loaded pack mule high in the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah. He was seven years old, and some things would never quite be the same. The way he walks. How he rides a horse. The way he looks at a family photograph. Things I Didn't Do is both the story of a lifetime and the story of how we make our lives. In writing that is fiercely intimate and expansively lyrical, this novel is powerful exploration of the experiences and revelations that--in a single moment--can change our understanding of ourselves, shift how we relate to the people around us, and reverberate far into the future.