Borrowed from CLP on 3/19/23 after reading this Vulture piece by Lila Shapiro: The Fabulist in the Woods, March 14, 2023:
https://www.vulture.com/article/kelly-link-white-cat-black-dog-profile.html
The collection was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for 2016. Disconcerting, swerving between gripping, fascinating, funny, incomprehensible, mysterious, repulsive. Some otherworldly bits. Some magic, some meanness, some parties, some hangovers. Always a streak of humanity, which, for me, saves the collection.
Nine stories, 6 over 40 pages, so hefty not light. Caused a stir with many reviews, e.g.:
https://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384112942/ignoring-the-rules-kelly-link-traffics-in-wonder-irony-and-teenage-longings
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/25/get-in-trouble-kelly-link-review-short-story-collection
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/books/review/kelly-links-get-in-trouble.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/books/review/kelly-link-by-the-book.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/02/07/review-get-trouble-kelly-link/zqx2Fq6wg9ZyTPjzi4qqhP/story.html
Kelly Link reviews of other books:
https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old/stranger-things-happen-reviews
https://kellylink.net/books/pretty-monsters/pretty-monsters-reviews-2
