Nothing to See Here

By Kevin Wilson, Ecco, 2019, 277 pages
Reviewed by Julie Bookman, June 16, 2020

Wilson is a writing prof at The University of the South in Tennessee (known only as “Sewanee” by anyone this side of the Mississippi). Wilson told his students (I know one who just graduated) that he wrote this book in 11 days — that it just flew right out.

And it indeed has that cool kind of oh-my-god-what’s-gonna-happen urgency.

The story involves two women, now around 30, but they had been unlikely boarding school roommates: one rich, one poor. The latter, a promising scholarship student, years prior took the fall for the rich gal and was expelled from the boarding school.

A decade or more later, the two are back in contact when the rich one enlists her old friend to become nanny to her unusual stepkid-twins. These boy-girl “fire twins” burst into flames when they get a little upset.