White Cat, Black Dog

Author: Link, Kelly

Fiction & related items

Published on 9 November 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
129 x 198 x 24 | 204g

Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.

Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you'll find stoner students, failing actors and stranded professors questing for love, revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity and mundanity, White Cat, Black Dog will delight, beguile, occasionally horrify, and remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.

Don't stray from the path! Not without Kelly Link as your guide.

'Uncanny brilliance' Sunday Times'An expert illusionist' New Yorker'Link is a genius' LA Times 'Thrilling... glittering' Spectator'A short story sorceress' Washington Post'Joyful... awe-inspiring' Jessamine Chan'Contains all the good stuff' Bustle'Magically transporting' Salon'Wonderfully told' BuzzFeed'Liable to linger in your mind' Today'Enchanting' Publishers Weekly'Wondrous' Stephen Graham Jones'This book is sublime' Emma Straub'Enchanting... unsettling' Kiersten White'Glorious and bewitching' Clare BeamsTales you live inside' Victor Lavalle'Luminous... surreal' Kate Mascarenhas