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Early Reviews

“The trick, of course, is that we can’t stop reading, that we — like she, like so many of the characters in this collection — are hopelessly engaged.” — David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

“A new Link collection is therefore more than just a good excuse for a trip to the bookstore. It’s a zero-gravity vacation in a dust jacket.” — Amy Gentry, Chicago Tribune

“Link is one of a kind.” — Jane Ciabatarri, BBC Culture

“Utterly addictive, finely wrought concoctions of fantasy and science fiction and literary realism and horror and young adult and old adult.” — Isaac Fitzgerald, The Millions

“If you’ve ever lost something, if you’ve ever had to live without something you really and truly love, Link will break your heart with her stories, and you’ll be glad.” — Rebecca Vipond Brink, The Frisky

“Link’s work is truly original, taking on the shadow places with humor and those that are basked in light with a gravity we’d perhaps be inclined to ignore on our own. Whether it is rich girls building pyramids to entomb their bodies or a hotel where a girl goes to meet the true love she’d found on the Internet, Link takes us on a joyously raucous journey.” — Ben, Book People, Austin, TX

“In her story collection “Get in Trouble,” Kelly Link’s characters splash, thrash and flounder in the unpredictable eddies of a Bermuda triangle bounded by horror, black comedy and pop-culture geekiness.” — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal

“I Can See Right Through You”

Kelly’s story from McSweeney’s issue 48 can also be read online on the McSweeney’s website: “I Can See Right Through You.

When the sex tape happened and things went south with Fawn, the demon lover did what he always did. He went to cry on Meggie’s shoulder. Girls like Fawn came and went, but Meggie would always be there. Him and Meggie. It was the talisman you kept in your pocket. The one you couldn’t lose.

2 stories to be podcast

Good news for audiophiles: “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” will be podcast on February 27, 2015, and “The Specialist’s Hat” will come out in late March. More info TK closer to the date.