Magic for Beginners - Softcover

A Locus Award Winner * A Time Best Book of the Year * A Bram Stoker Finalist * A World Fantasy Award Finalist * A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year

"Link is no doubt a sorceress to be reckoned with." --The New York Times Book Review

"Gobsmacking magnificence?. This is what certain readers live for: fiction that makes the world instead of merely mimicking it." ? Audrey Niffenegger

"All of Link’s stories are wonderfully odd and original. Some are also quite scary." ? Sarah Waters

"Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact."--Jonathan Lethem

"Charming? A hybrid world that’s part Muggle and part magic."?Time

"A new collection by Kelly Link-- and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving."-Michael Chabon

"Link's world is one to savor." --Entertainment Weekly

"[Magic for Beginners] might just encapsulate one of the most fertile literary movements of recent years."?Boston Globe

KELLY LINK’s stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Conjunctions, The Dark, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Nebula Award and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.