Author Event & Book Signing with Karin Anderson "Things I Didn't Do"

Wed Aug 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-06:00

The Rochester Hotel | Durango

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Author Event & Book Signing with Karin Anderson "Things I Didn't Do"
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What makes us who we are? Things I Didn’t Do 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 explores 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.
KARIN ANDERSON is the award-winning author of What Falls Away and Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. She is a gardener, writer, mother, wanderer, and self-described heretic, as well as the co-editor of the acclaimed anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild. A former professor of English at Utah Valley University, Anderson holds degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. She hails from the Great Basin and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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