Tunneling to the center of the earth
Subtitle: stories
By: Kevin Wilson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780061579028
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 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.
Notes: "An Ecco book"--T.p.

Includes "P. S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Grand stand-in --; title: Blowing up on the spot --; title: The dead sister handbook: a guide for sensitive boys --; title: Birds in the house --; title: Mortal kombat --; title: Tunneling to the center of the earth --; title: The shooting man --; title: The choir director affair (the baby's teeth) --; title: Go, fight, win --; title: The museum of whatnot --; title: Worst-case scenario.