A YA short-story collection blending fantasy, horror, and dark humor, where adolescence meets wizards, ghosts, aliens, and things that are never quite what they seem.
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A YA short-story collection blending fantasy, horror, and dark humor, where adolescence meets wizards, ghosts, aliens, and things that are never quite what they seem.
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Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for th...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild sexual references, kissing, and awkward first-love themes; mostly off-page
Violence & gore
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Murder, gravedigging, undead creatures and macabre peril; creepy rather than graphic
Profanity
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Occasional strong language including fuck and shit
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Wizards, fairy magic, enchanted objects, and supernatural fantasy central to many stories
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult practices depicted
Political content
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Refugee themes and near-future social backdrop in one story
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Other
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