Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
Author: Wells Tower
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE,,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….Read More
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