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Short cuts

Kelly Link has published five collections of short stories that might be mostly placed within the genre of speculative fiction. She’s won scads of awards for her writing, including a(Bloomsbury). It’s about three New England teenagers who disappeared a year ago and were presumed dead. They were. But they’re back alive, thanks to the man they thought was their high school music teacher. was mostly on board. “This book has many enchantments and moving moments, but it would have been better, and more magical, if it were shorter.”

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