Delinquents: Essays

Searching, surprising essays on making a life and making sense of life—as an artist, a daughter, a mother, a survivor―from the acclaimed author of Believers.

Lisa Wells came of age on the margins. The daughter of thwarted artists, she grew up in poverty in the Pacific Northwest among rebels and rockers, kids from broken homes united by their love of art. Across this collection, Wells writes with humor and gravity about poetry, poverty, a doomed first marriage, her sister’s death, and the sp...