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"A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders--strange, 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, the mundane and the fantastic. ""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 inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both."

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Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews. She currently lives with her family in Wilmington, North Carolina. Publishers Weekly says of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience. Speaking of Audiobooks says, Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators-if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try. Jenna Lamia, film actress and award-winning audiobook narrator, has won the prestigious Audie Award and more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards. George Newbern's film credits include Father of the Bride 1 and 2, Adventures in Babysitting, and Dadnapped. He has guest starred on many television series, including Scandal, The Mentalist, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, and Numb3rs. Allyson Ryan is a voice-over actress and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. She also has extensive experience on stage and screen. Michael Crouch is an Audie Award-winning actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has earned multiple Earphones Awards from AudioFile and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, and video games. Sophie Amoss, a New Orleans native, is a New York-based Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator, commercial, and video game voice actor. Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Perfect Little World and The Family Fang, which was made into a film with Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman. His story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award. Wilson teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

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