Meet seven short stories filled to overflowing with beauty and stinging ferocity, they have the ability to slink their way onto any bookshelf and make themselves right at home. Kelly Link has taken fairy tales of old, reinvented and made them her own. Each story is headed with its new title, and the original too, from Snow-White and Rose-Red through to The Musicians of Bremen. As I read, each story became its own, markedly different, fabulously distinct, yet sitting in honour to the first. These tales may settle gently in your mind, or rush in with intent, all come with a provocative edge. I adored all of them, usually in a book of short stories several favourites muscle their way forward, here each one carved space in my thoughts to reside. You will meet animals that can talk, travel into the future, and discover the darkest reaches of hell. If you adore tales of tales of wonder and imagination, magic realism or speculative fiction, in other words stories that take hold and send your thoughts soaring, then this LoveReading Star Book is for you. White Cat, Black Dog contains the most wonderful storytelling, of the deepest dark kind, and I recommend it heart and soul.
Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.
Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you'll find stoner students, failing actors and stranded professors questing for love, revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity and mundanity, this collection will remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.
Don't stray from the path!
Not without Kelly Link as your guide.
'Uncanny brilliance' Sunday Times
'An expert illusionist' New Yorker
'Link is a genius' LA Times
'Thrilling... glittering' Spectator
'A short story sorceress' Washington Post
'Joyful... awe-inspiring' Jessamine Chan
'Contains all the good stuff' Bustle
'Magically transporting' Salon
'Wonderfully told' BuzzFeed'Liable to linger in your mind' Today
'Enchanting' Publishers Weekly
'Wondrous' Stephen Graham Jones
'This book is sublime' Emma Straub
'Enchanting... unsettling' Kiersten White
'Glorious and bewitching' Clare Beams
Tales you live inside' Victor Lavalle
'Luminous... surreal' Kate Mascarenhas
