Review: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
I have become a fan of short-story collections. I have enjoyed the works of John Connelly , not enjoyed the works of Kelly Link — then I encountered Tunneling to the Center of the Earth . Please stop what you are doing (yes, reading this review) and go purchase a copy, read it and return to this review. See??????? Holy cow. This begs not only the question of who thinks of this kind of stuff, but how can someone make the telling of it so right ? Like with other collections, the first story had a wow-factor of 11. The idea of a "professional" grandparent is intriguing, and a business that would be really pretty win-win for all parties involved. If that's where Kevin Wilson left it, I'd be impressed. No, it's where he goes with "Grand Stand-Ins" that haunts me now, weeks after my first encounter with it. And "The Shooting Man" may not have been a total surprise, but — again — it's where the story travels after it leaves my im...