Inheritance

What Fools We Have Been by Hank Williams is a bittersweet contemporary novel that examines a life – what was, and what might have been.

We see that decisions in life ripple down the generations. It is not just physical looks that are passed on, but family traits too.

A life imagines what life is like as he ‘meets’ the living and the dead in his mind. We see that a mother’s love remains, not even death can separate her from her children.

We witness the detrimental affect a father has as he rules his children with a rod of iron. He drives them away, never to return.