Random House
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
352 pages ISBN: 0804179689 EAN: 9780804179683 Kindle: B00MSS0WQY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly
playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a
national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new
collection—her first for adult readers in a decade—proves
indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among
the finest we have.
Link has won an ardent
following for her ability, with each new short story, to
take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly
constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples
in this collection show her in full command of her
formidable powers. In “The Summer People,” a young girl in
rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the
mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the
cottage behind her house. In “I Can See Right Through You,”
a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the
Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love
interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In “The
New Boyfriend,” a suburban slumber party takes an unusual
turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled
birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated
doll.
Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins,
bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz,
superheroes, the Pyramids . . . These are just some of the
talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of
wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as
these stories can be, they are always grounded by sly humor
and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty—and the
hidden strengths—of human beings. In Get in Trouble,
this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what
short fiction can do.
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