Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
10 best books like Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (Kevin Wilson): The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, The Theory of Light and Matter, Home Remedies, The Riverman, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, The Flick, Panorama City, The Vermont Plays, A Visitation of Spirits
| Author | David George Haskell |
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0062864688 |
6 Hours and 55 Minutes
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.
At times raucously hilarious,...
| Author | Andrew Porter |
| ISBN | 0820332097 |
These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In Hole, a young man...
| Author | Xuan Juliana Wang |
| ISBN | 1984822748 |
In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.
From...
| Author | Aaron Starmer |
| ISBN | 0374363099 |
"To sell a book, you need a description on the back. So here's mine: My name is Fiona Loomis. I was born on August 11, 1977. I am recording this message on the morning of October 13, 1989. Today I am thirteen years old. Not a day older. Not a day younger."
Fiona Loomis is Alice, back from Wonderland....
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0345384202 |
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who...
| Author | Annie Baker |
| ISBN | 1559364580 |
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints...
| Author | Antoine Wilson |
| ISBN | 0547875126 |
With its blend of fool’s wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Steve Martin’s The Jerk.
From his deathbed*, 28-year-old Oppen Porter—an open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described "slow absorber"—unspools...
| Author | Annie Baker |
| ISBN | 1559363894 |
Includes The Aliens: an exploration of friendship and music in the lives of three misfits behind a coffee shop; Circle Mirror Transformation: a meditation on life within the rhythms of an adult drama class; Nocturama: a dark comedy in which a grown son returns home to live with his mother and stepfather;...
| Author | Randall Kenan |
| ISBN | 0375703977 |
"Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage."--Gloria Naylor
Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family.
Sixteen-year old Horace...
