What I Never Told You: Stories

SHORTLISTED 2023 RUBERY BOOK AWARD

FINALIST 2023 IAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

In these stories, writes award-winning author Andrew X. Pham, "Lawton's fluid prose flows like her beloved river . . . the surreal depth becomes within reach. Simply one of the best collections I’ve read in years." — ANDREW X. PHAM, author, Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars and Catfish and Mandala

THESE FIFTEEN STORIES ARE LINKED BY WATER AND WATER PEOPLE.

As Roger Real Drouin, publisher of Little Curlew Press and author of No Other Way wrote about this collection: "An unforgettable journey on our most beloved element in all its liquid beauty, strength, and potential for violence."

Published in 2014 as Steelies and Other Endangered Species: Stories on Water by Little Curlew Press (2014), What I Never Told You: Stories has been revised and updated for 2023.

“Lawton’s beautifully rendered and accessible stories make you want to move quickly from beginning to end, but I urge you—savor the journey. Breathe in the spirit of each new place.” — PAGE LAMBERT, author, In Search of Kinship and Shifting Stars

"A powerful collection of stories about connections to the wild and necessary land, rivers, and creatures around us. But as part of the wondrous and fragile web made possible by water, it is also a beautiful meditation on the human heart and our essential connections to each other." — Julian Hoffman, author of The Small Heart of Things

"Lawton enchants the reader with emotional honesty and an intensity that infuses her stories with the beauty of the natural world." — B.C. Rimbeaux, best-selling author, adventurer, and whitewater guide