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Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link

Get in Trouble: Stories

by Kelly Link


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9 Hrs. 57 Min.

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She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as "the most darkly playful voice in American fiction" and by Neil Gaiman as "a national treasure." Now Kelly Link's eagerly awaited new collection - her first for adult listeners in a decade - proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have.

Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take listeners deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In "The Summer People," a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In "I Can See Right Through You," a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In "The New Boyfriend," a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll.

Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the Pyramids... These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as these stories can be, they are always grounded by sly humor and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty - and the hidden strengths - of human beings. In Get in Trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.

Read by a Full Cast:

  • "The Summer People"... read by Grace Blewer
  • "I Can See Right Through You"... read by Kirby Heyborne
  • "Secret Identity"... read by Tara Sands
  • "Valley of the Girls"... read by Robbie Daymond
  • "Origin Story"... read by Rebecca Lowman
  • "The Lesson"... read by Cassandra Campbell
  • "The New Boyfriend"... read by Ish Klein
  • "Two Houses" ... read by Susan Duerden
  • "Light" ... read by Kirsten Potter


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