Stranger Things Happen
Kelly Link
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.<p>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.<br><br>Stories from&nbsp;<i><b>Stranger Things Happen</b></i>&nbsp;have won the&nbsp;Nebula,&nbsp;Tiptree, and&nbsp;World Fantasy Award.&nbsp;<i><b>Stranger Things Happen</b></i>&nbsp;was a&nbsp;Salon&nbsp;Book of the Year, one of the&nbsp;Village Voice's&nbsp;25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the&nbsp;Firecracker Alternative Book Award.</p>