Stranger Things Happen

By Kelly Link

Subjects: village voice 25 favorite books 2001, world fantasy award, American Fantasy fiction, salon book of the year, firecracker alternative book award, Nebula Award Winner, Fantasy fiction, James Tiptree Jr. Award, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Short stories

Description: This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear. These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you. Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Contents: - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1998) - Water Off a Black Dog's Back (1995) - The Specialist's Hat (1998) - Flying Lessons (1995) - Travels with the Snow Queen (1996/1997) - Vanishing Act (1996) - Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party (1998) - Shoe and Marriage (2000) - Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water (2001) - Louise's Ghost (2001) - The Girl Detective (1999)