Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

<p>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i> EDITORS' CHOICE</p><p>Viking 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 car's windshield doesn't 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 Tower's 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, <i>Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned</i> is a profound new collection of stories.</p>