"Kelly Link is the master of the modern fairy tale."
--Today "
White Cat, Black Dog [is] the perfect opportunity to get to know one of America's most inventive, evocative writers."
--Slate "Kelly Link is something of a short story sorceress."
--The Washington Post "To read Link is to place oneself in the hands of an expert illusionist, entering a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems."
--The New Yorker "As intense, absorbing and weird as the best dreams."
--The Guardian "[Stories of] sparkling strangeness."
--The Wall Street Journal "Kelly Link . . . masterfully twists familiar source material into unexpected, new shapes. . . . She beckons us into her gingerbread house in the cul-de-sac suburbs, hoping to entangle and provoke us. . . . For Link, modern literature can never outgrow the resilience and resonance of the fairy tale. And even if it could, what fun would that be?"
--The Atlantic "Kelly Link secures her crown as queen of the literary fairy tale. . . . Again and again, Link applies her fairy tales like a nutcracker to our contemporary archetypes, breaking them open and making us shiver with mingled horror and delight at the tiny and unsettling wonders she finds within."
--Vox "There are, of course, other authors adept at blending the real and the unreal, but there may well be no one who does it as impressively as Link."
--The Boston Globe "Like magic, narrative rearranges the world through words, and Kelly Link is one of modern fiction's boldest alchemists."
--Electric Lit "
White Cat, Black Dog marks a glittering new height in the literature of the weird."
--The Spectator (UK) "Fans of
Station Eleven, speculative fiction or simply anyone who needs a brief escape from the hard, cold world will find the prose here magically transporting."
--Salon "Link is a genius. . . . [This book is] pure modern folklore--eccentric, taut and tapped into the collective subconscious."
--Los Angeles Times "The maestro fantasist of short fiction brings us more mystical stories--of animals, human and not, and the unattainable desires that make up all our lives."
--Bustle "This is extra-strength Link: funny, bizarre and wild, but never reckless."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Kelly Link's stories are spooky and funny, grounded, and floating, and, as always, completely her own. There is no mistaking a story by Kelly Link. This book is sublime."
--Emma Straub, author of This Time Tomorrow "These are big stories, tales you dive into, live inside, and come out the other end changed."
--Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
