Nothing to See Here: A Read with Jenna Pick - Tapa blanda

// Praise for PERFECT LITTLE WORLD--// // Praise for THE FAMILY FANG--// // Praise for BABY YOU'RE GONNA BE MINE--// Kevin Wilson once again dazzles with a bizarre, comic, and heartbreaking tale. . . . A dryly comic, surreal phantasmagoria reminiscent of Kafka, Garcia-Marquez, and their heirs, from David Foster Wallace to Karen Russell.--Chapter 16 Perennially weird and wonderful. . . . Wilson's portrayal of these fire children conveys more emotional truth about life with a difficult or neurodivergent kid than any of those parenting guides. . . . Funny and affecting.--Minneapolis Star Tribune Funny and even eerily beautiful. . . . It's the sweetness of this novel that will melt you.--NPR.org Darkly funny yet quietly devastating. . . . Wilson crafts a stunning portrait of the push and pull of parenthood.--Time A pleasing blend of tartness and tenderness. . . . . Wilson's ability to capture such tangled sentiments makes him a thoroughly engaging and appealing writer.--Boston Globe [Wilson's] most perfect novel. Paradoxically light and melancholy, it hews to the border of fantasy but stays in the land of realism. . . . You can sense the real heat radiating off these pages. . . . This novel may seem slight and quirky, but don't be fooled. There's a lot to see here.--Washington Post "[A] deadpan, hilarious modern fairy tale."--Newsday "It's a giddily lunatic premise, one that author Kevin Wilson grounds with humor and deadpan matter-of-factness. . . . Wilson's observational humor is riotous in its specificity. . . . The writing dazzles. . . . But what dazzles most are the warmly rendered dynamics of an ad hoc, dysfunctional family that desperately wants to work."--USA Today "A peculiar, entertaining and insightful book about the hazards of child-rearing and the value of friends."--People "I can't believe how good this book is. . . . Wholly original. It's also perfect. . . . Wilson writes with such a light touch. . . . That's the brilliance of the novel--that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn't see coming."-- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review “Wilson's latest is outlandish and laugh-out-loud funny."--Parade “There's hardly a sentence that feels like anything you've read before, that's how fresh his voice is. . . . Witty, confiding, breezily profane. . . . That the supernatural elements feel so right is a testament to Wilson's innate skill as a storyteller."--Entertainment Weekly "Quirky and insightful, strange and delightful."--Popsugar "Weird, funny, but also unexpectedly moving. . . . An affecting reflection on the blithe cruelty of the rich and what it means to be a good parent."--Buzzfeed "Laugh out loud funny. I love the way Kevin Wilson writes."--Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner "Winningly bizarre."--Vanity Fair "Breathtakingly wonderful."--Miami Herald "Wilson's deliciously breezy style reels you in and holds you tight."--Denver Post "A novel you keep reading for old-fashioned reasons--because it's a good story and you need to know what happens."--John Irving, The New York Times Book Review "These new stories of Wilson's are something else; they're funny, raw and beautiful."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Hands down my favorite book of the year."--Ann Patchett, Today

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "I can't believe how good this book is.... It's wholly original. It's also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn't see coming. You're laughing so hard you don't even realize that you've suddenly caught fire." --Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they've barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it's the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other--and stay cool--while also staying out of the way of Madison's buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her--urgently and fiercely. Couldn't this be the start of the amazing life she'd always hoped for? With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet--a most unusual story of parental love.