Description
Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island to shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A kid runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl.
In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, failed inventors, boozy dreamers. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut of a type of voice we have not heard before.
In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, failed inventors, boozy dreamers. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut of a type of voice we have not heard before.
