Stranger Things Happen
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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.
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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 Happenhave won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happenwas a SalonBook of the Year, one of the Village Voice's25 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)
Cover painting by Shelley Jackson
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