{"product_id":"stranger-things-happen-stories-9781931520003","title":"Stranger Things Happen: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--Salon.com (Best of the Year)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A delightful collection.\"--\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My favorite fantasy writer.\"--Alan Cheuse, \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling.\"--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly Link's collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eStranger Things Happen, \u003c\/i\u003e really scores.\u003cbr\u003e--Daniel Mendelsohn, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Karen Joy Fowler \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Neil Gaiman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jonathan Lethem\u003cp\u003eThe eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, \u003ci\u003eLocus, The Village Voice, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c\/i\u003e Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three collections of short fiction \u003ci\u003eStranger Things Happen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagic for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePretty Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question \"Why do you want to go through the world?\" (\"Because you can't go through it.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLink lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror\u003c\/i\u003e, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine \u003ci\u003eLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Beer Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931520003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 5.56w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Firecracker Alternative Book Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 764\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2001 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2001 pg. 1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/11\/2001 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 141\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelly Link","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670857543836,"sku":"9781931520003","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_dcbe4b3f-42eb-4879-a9c1-53157e7dbdef.jpg?v=1603923801","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stranger-things-happen-stories-9781931520003","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}