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The first collection from award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy
tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs
and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike on a voyage into
new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go
to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers.
A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects
artificial noses. A dead mean posts letters home to his estranged
wife. Two men named Louise begin a series of consecutive love
affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become
participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens
invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself
disappear.
These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you. Kelly Link's stories have won the James Tiptree and World Fantasy Award, and have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, a Village Voice Favorite, and was nominated for the Firecracker Award.
"Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen,
really scores."
"Stranger Things Happen is a tremendously appealing book,
and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out
the door to find a copy."
"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out
there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and
makes real magic with them -- funny, moving, tender, brave, and
dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national
treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed
marines."
"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short
story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact
moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact.
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