Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth is Kevin Wilson's first story collection, set in a world that moves between the mundane and the fantastic. In 'Grand Stand-In,' the narrator works for a company that supplies substitute grandparents to families whose own are dead, ill or simply mean. In 'Blowing Up on the Spot,' a Scrabble-factory tile sorter copes with parents who spontaneously combusted. Laced with humor and pathos, these Southern gothic stories explore loss and death and the ways people try to cope.

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Seth Godin: “Kevin Wilson wrote a great short story about the workers who have to sort the tiles that go into a Scrabble box.”