Books by Kevin Wilson
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review 1: All his stories can be summed up in a sentence. His characters are always made to be lacking in some obvious, uncomplicated way - whether it's a baby with monstrous teeth, girl with no social connections, college grads who'd rather dig holes in the ground than think about their c...
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review 1: Caleb and Camilla Fang are successful performance artists receiving awards for their art of chaos and pandemonium and parents of two young children. Both children take part in many of their performances. To me it felt as if they were actually being abused, since their parents se...
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review 1: Maybe my favorite book of short stories of all time. Each story is incredibly odd in the best possible way. Reading them feels voyeuristic, like you're intruding onto a fully-formed world filled with strange but believable characters caught in strange but believable circumstances...
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review 1: A solid collection of stories, mostly about lost persons filling their lives with activities that satisfy, but only gloss over their own personal emptinesses. Most of the stories have a happy or hopeful feeling to the endings -- or, at least, a satisfying conclusion. My favorite...
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review 1: This book started off really well, and I like it as a whole - but there were long periods of time where it moved at a glacial pace. The premise of the book was incredible! I loved the idea of chaos in art and the exploration of just how resilient children are (how far do they ben...
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review 1: I really loved this book a lot more than I expected to. It's all about identity and art and creativity and family and the chaos and ambiguity and comedy and tragedy that are a part of all of those things. It's funny and bittersweet and heart-breaking and hopeful all at the same t...