Get in Trouble

Breathtaking * * THE TIMES * *
A brilliant, giddying read -- SARAH WATERS
Welcome to the fabulous mind of Kelly Link. Beautifully written [and] daring -- SCARLETT THOMAS * * NEW YORK TIMES * *
Link's prose and ideas dazzle * * GUARDIAN * *
Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling * * TIME * *
Filled with pocket universes, each tale crackling with the unexpected. The most marvelous kind of trouble to get in -- ERIN MORGENSTERN
Very much fun -- @MARGARETATWOOD
Intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs -- ALICE SEBOLD
Every one of the stories in this collection is like a one-of-a-kind Jack-in-the-box. We turn the crank, expecting the laughter, the surprise, the rearrangement of themes familiar to our ears from ages ago, and the turning brings us all those joys. But wait, wait until the box pops open: out comes not Jack nor the weasel but our own exposed hearts. How does Kelly Link understand our pains and longings and memories and even our futures so well, and how does she make us go back to the next Jack-in-the-box, again and again, with hope and dread and determination to know life better, to live differently? Kelly Link s a national treasure! -- YIYUN LI
In this utterly astonishing new collection, Kelly Link demonstrates a perfect and completely mature command of the entirely unexpected, ever-evolving, self-examining, deeply original and personal, emotion-riddled kind of story only Kelly Link is capable of writing. Another way to say this is: in these stories, Kelly Link is the top of her self-defined form. Another way to say it is: close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better -- PETER STRAUB