White Cat, Black Dog

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó NEW YORK TIMES EDITORSΓÇÖ CHOICE ΓÇó ΓÇ£The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland. . . . In seven remixed fairy tales,Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTime Finalist for the Kirkus Prize ΓÇó ΓÇ£Thought-provoking and wonderfully told . . . so seamlessly entwines the real with the surreal that the stories threaten to slip into realityresonating long after reading.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöBuzzFeed A new collection from one of todayΓÇÖs finest short story writersMacArthur ΓÇ£Genius GrantΓÇ¥ fellow Kelly Linkbestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in TroubleΓÇöfeaturing illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimmseventeenth-century French loreand Scottish balladsKelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekersΓÇöcharacters on the hunt for loveconnectionrevengeor their own sense of purpose. In ΓÇ£The White CatΓÇÖs DivorceΓÇ¥ an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which child will become his heir. In ΓÇ£The Girl Who Did Not Know FearΓÇ¥ a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conferencedesperate to get home to her wife and young daughterand in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed. In ΓÇ£SkinderΓÇÖs VeilΓÇ¥ 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 journeyas the house seems to be a portal for otherworldly travelersΓÇöor perhaps a door into his own mysterious psyche. Twisting and turning in astonishing waysexpertly blending realism and the speculativewittyempatheticand never predictableΓÇöthese stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.