Only in German: A Novel of Silence, Secrets, and the Son She Never Spoke Of (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186472049)

When Claire flies to Montreal to be with her dying mother, she finds a cardboard box in the back of a closet. Inside: documents, photographs, and a sealed envelope addressed only to Thomas - a name she has never heard.

What follows is not a mystery. It is something quieter and more difficult: a woman learning, in the last weeks of her mother's life, that silence is not the absence of things - it is the shape they take when they cannot be said.

Only in German is a novel about inheritance, about the cost of secrets kept too long, and about what it means to be present - truly present - before it is too late.