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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 ends . . . Link's work borrows from everywhere, from every parent imaginable, and it doesn't give a stuff. . . . It is all hilarious, forgiving, wise. -John Clute
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