In ‘Run for the Hills,' abandoned children redefine family
In Kevin Wilson's poignant, comic stories, the theatricality of family life often takes center stage. Wilson reminds us that our parents and siblings are both actors and audience for a show that's intensely private but inevitably public.
In his hilarious debut novel, 'The Family Fang' (2011) — adapted into a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman — Wilson follows the humiliations of two children who are dragged into the mad antics of their performance artist parents. In his most surreal novel, 'Nothing to See Here' (2019), a pair of 10-year-old twins literally burst into flames whenever they get upset — a singeing experience familiar even to the most heat-resistant parents.
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