Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
Stories

Author: Kevin Wilson

Narrator: George Newbern, Karen White, Michael Crouch, Jenna Lamia, Sophie Amoss, Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

Audiobook performed by George Newbern, Karen White, Michael Crouch, Jenna Lamia, Sophie Amoss, and Allyson RyanA debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—complex, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now on audio as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” Series, and with a new introduction from the author.Kevin Wilson’s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, yet they are grounded in the emotional truths of the characters’ experiences. “Grand Stand-In” is narrated by an employee of the 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 story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, 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 empathetic stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

About Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Nothing to See Here, and The Family Fang, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ

I have read two novels by Kevin Wilson and was just OK with Nothing to See Here (2019) (3 stars) and not at all OK with The Family Fang (2011) (1 star). I remember when reviewing The Family Fang that somebody on GR said that his short story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, was much b......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them. . . You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.” I read and really liked Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here (201......more