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Praise for Stranger Things Happen:
Kelly Link's debut collection fuses storytelling smarts with postmodern
flair, Nancy Drew with Philip K. Dick. . . . But behind the fancy, darker

shapes emerge. "Water Off a Black Dog's Back" and "The Specialist's
Hat" are irresistible modern horror stories that go about their business
with such charm it's a shock when their traps snick shut, while "The
Girl Detective" is a sly disarticulation of whodunits and the underworld
that's as fun to read as it is heartbreaking-a great pop coup, part tabloid
headlines, part Joycean "Ithaca." -Village Voice (The Lit Parade: Our
25 Favorite Books of 2001)
Kelly Link's exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of
everyday life with the stuff that myths, dreams and nightmares are
made of. Some of them are very scary, others are immensely sad, many
are funny and all of them are written in prose so flawless you almost
forget how much elemental human chaos they contain. -Laura Miller,
Salon (Top 10 Books of the Year)
Sly and charming, tart and wise. -Michael Berry, San Francisco
Chronicle
The best collection of fantasy (defined broadly) stories to appear in a
good long while. . . . 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. -Gregory Feeley, Washington Post
Book World
The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so
quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their
surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional
estrangement . . . the best shed a warm, weird light on their worlds,
illuminating fresh perspectives and fantastic possibilities. -Publishers
Weekly
As soon as one is tempted to compare Link's writing to anything or
anyone, she gracefully slithers into another skin. Her stories are
satisfying, bizarre, hilarious and beautiful.-Juliet Waters, Montreal
Mirror . . . she knows intimately the genres of old, the genres which
sustained us for nearly two centuries and are now in managed care; she
knows them, loves them clearly, and uses them with utter ruthlessness
to gain her