num_pages: 238
description: 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 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.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.
language: English
title: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux