· It has taken Link 10 years to produce her new story collection, “Get in Trouble,” and it is just as brilliant as her last, “Magic for Beginners” (). The opening story, “The Summer Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · Book Review: 'Get In Trouble,' By Kelly Link Writer Kelly Link has a lot of magic powers, but it's her confidence and storytelling chops that reviewer Meg Wolitzer finds most www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, American author Kelly Link’s short story collection Get in Trouble () features nine stories that cover a range of genres including fantasy, horror, science fiction, and magical realism. Fran, a teenage girl suffers from the flu in "The Summer People." Her itinerant father tells her he must leave for a few weeks and that she must tend to the needs of “the .
Finalist: Get in Trouble: Stories, by Kelly Link (Random House) Share: Twitter Facebook Email A collection of short stories in which a writer with a fertile and often fabulist imagination explores inner lies and odd corners of reality. Get in Trouble. by Kelly Link. Kelly Link writes about the world next door. Her stories don't give ordinary life a single magical turn—a collegiate assessor's nose running away from his face, for example, or a pickle seller coming to life after being brined for two generations—nor do they very often create entirely fantastical worlds. Book Review: 'Get In Trouble,' By Kelly Link Writer Kelly Link has a lot of magic powers, but it's her confidence and storytelling chops that reviewer Meg Wolitzer finds most enchanting.
Get in Trouble is a collection of short stories by author Kelly Link. It contains nine short stories, five of which were previously published. The stories contain elements of fantasy, magical realism, and light horror. The book was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. It was also a Finalist for the Indies Choice Book Award in the category "Book of the Year - Adult Fiction." The story "The Summer People" won the Shirley Jackson Awards for best novelette. MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Link's fiction may be strange, but so, it seems, are all of us, each with our own highly particular inner lives. Her confidence and storytelling chops give her the freedom to enter these places.
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