Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
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A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
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So, after reading this (and my brief dalliance with Kelly Link) I have come to realise something about myself as a reader. I don't take well to the absurd. I need some semblance of logic and order to my stories. They may be magical, but I need them to be plausible (if that makes sense?) This collection had both the plausible (a witch pirate) and the absurd (an astronomer falling in love with an insect! -DNF). So now I know.
