num_pages: 224
description: 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 Providera 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.
language: English
title: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
publisher: Ecco