Get in Trouble: Stories

Get in Trouble: StoriesFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as one of the most inventive voices in contemporary fiction, Get in Trouble is a dazzling collection of short stories by Kelly Link. Blending the uncanny with the everyday, Link creates imaginative worlds where ghosts host reality shows, astronauts drift through emotional orbit, suburban slumber parties turn unsettling, and mysterious visitors linger just out of sight. Each story bends the boundaries of

high-stakes thriller about power

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Winningly personal

or Mother's Day

highly original portrait of the Buddha explores Bothe the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man

Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others—as Virgil is about to find out

It is an excellent choice for anyone seeking greater self-awareness

Patricial Cornwell

Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store

these tales reveal women old enough to reminisce yet young enough to revolutionize

antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice

a series of misfortunes unfolds: stolen confectioner's sugar