Kevin Wilson\'s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic.
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..
And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. "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.
Kevin Wilson\'s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic