Everything Ravaged Everything Burned: Stories

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICEViking marauders descend on a much-plundered island hoping some mayhem will 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 cars windshield doesnt match her own. Teenage cousins drugged by summer meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. Wells Towers version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout the misfit: failed inventors boozy dreamers hapless fathers wayward sons. With electric prose and savage wit Everything Ravaged Everything Burned is a profound new collection of stories.