Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.
Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
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"Each of Kevin Wilson's beautifully imagined stories crackles with originality. He can break your heart and mend it in the same line, and he can fold a universe of loss into the smallest, most delicate gesture. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth is a refreshingly wild book, shot through with wicked humor and deep, affirming humanity, and it marks the arrival of a first-rank writer."
-- Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Corpus Christi and Naming the World
"You have to be careful reading this book. Kevin Wilson writes fiction that moves so quickly from twisted hilarity to strange, delicate beauty that you might not notice--until it's too late--that your heart is good and broken. This collection is like the spontaneous combustion one story in it describes: urgent, amazing, and on fire."
-- Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories
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