Description: Compression Scars is an eloquent and original collection that vibrantly captures the oddities of both the everyday and the out-of-this-world. The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters who struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find some way and someone to love.
Brief description: KELLIE WELLS teaches in the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals.
Review Quotes:
By turns achingly poignant and downright hilarious, rendered in prose as supple and surprising as it is consistently brilliant, these stories take us into a world of angels and grotesques, of grace notes and grave truths, of the lost and, finally, the found.
--Ellen Akins "author of World Like a Knife"