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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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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.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 22:31:31 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 22:52:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 62684899 119425 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:11:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:12:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 62342642 284410 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 0 false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:18:29 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:25:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59874275 317920 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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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"Like the pen-and-ink love children of Aimee Bender and Lorrie Moore, or George Saunders and Amy Hempel, the 10 stories in Kevin Wilson's Tunneling to the Center of the Earth are potent mixtures of weirdness and tenderness, ...more...]]> 53819310 1950583 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 08:16:40 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:29:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 63269814 721021 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 3 4 false Mon Jul 13 08:00:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:24:44 -0700 2009 Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories reads like the author read a whole lot of Flannery O’Connor while sitting alone at the lunch table in high school. I mean that in a good way.

The stories veer from the vaguely fantasy/sci-fi (“The Grand Stand-In”, about...more...]]> 75401306 343940 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:32:06 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 07:25:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67129908 1032563 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 3 1 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 14:45:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 12:15:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66270408 316231 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Wed Aug 05 05:12:19 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 05:32:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54006424 1294832 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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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Many of the stories in this book seem to take George Saunders, particularly Saunders less plausible and silly stories from "In Persuasion Nation," and create a kind of genre out of them. In Saunders work I tend to get r...more...]]> 60106658 913856 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 4 2 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 18:41:28 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 17:48:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 51590349 147775 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 1 false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 12:06:21 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 06:05:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 73026738 2793072 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Wed Sep 30 12:48:45 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:48:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55122573 190333 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 05:53:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:00:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 69222675 847281 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 0 false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 10:06:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 21:50:24 -0700 2009 (side note: I am always picturing Ed McMahon's Star Search voice with drumroll as I rank with stars, very ceremonial)

Can't exactly clarify *why*, but I really enjoyed this book. The stories are all set in a slightly bent reality, skewed, but conceivable and relatab...more...]]> 58313615 638504 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 5 0 false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 12:21:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:56:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 80742547 2421790 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 05:00:31 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 05:07:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 61757858 305495 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:32:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:44:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 53294447 139406 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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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i read the first story, "grand stand-in," and loved it. i started reading kelly link's book after that, couldn't really stop reading it, then continued reading this kevin wilson book. disservice #1, because i am still kind of losing my...more...]]> 49462973 1804611 4015864 0061579025 9780061579028 72 <![CDATA[Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4015864.Tunneling_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_Stories 4.01 186 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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