Wells Tower (Books)

Wells Tower Books

Wells Tower is an acclaimed author whose short stories and journalism have appeared in leading literary magazines. His works are valued for their unique perspective and precise style. Tower focuses on the dark, often bizarre aspects of the human experience, which he explores with keen insight and uncompromising humor. His writing is both unsettling and fascinating, offering readers a deep dive into the complexities of human nature.

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

224 pages
8 hours of reading

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 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. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.

3.9