Jay Jayamohan makes life & death decisions on a daily basis
- that's because he's a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon in a
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen 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 & messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His characters
- marauding Vikings, washed-up entrepreneurs, & jobbing hacks on local papers
- are adrift from the mainstream, confused by contemporary masculinity, angry & aimless. Combining electric prose with compassion & dark wit, this is a major debut.