White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland. . . . In seven remixed fairy tales, Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue.Time Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Thought-provoking and wonderfully told . . . so seamlessly entwines the real with the surreal that the stories threaten to slip into reality, resonating long after reading.BuzzFeed A new collection from one of todays finest short story writers, MacArthur Genius Grant fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Troublefeaturing illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Public Library, Shondaland, Slate, The Globe and Mail, Electric Lit, Tordotcom, Polygon, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekerscharacters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In The White Cats Divorce, an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which child will become his heir. In The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear, a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conference, desperate to get home to her wife and young daughter, and in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed. In Skinders Veil, a young man agrees to take over a remote house-sitting gig for a friend. But what should be a chance to focus on his long-avoided dissertation instead becomes a wildly unexpected journey, as the house seems to be a portal for otherworldly travelersor perhaps a door into his own mysterious psyche. Twisting and turning in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never predictablethese stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.