The Book of Love

“The Book of Love is an incredible achievement — a novel whose people and places feel so true to life that the magic that shimmers through the pages like grown-up fairy dust seems not just real but unquestionable. A book that harrows your soul as it makes you laugh: this modern day The Master and Margarita will remain with you long after you have turned the last lush and visionary page.” – Cassandra Clare
By turns playful and harrowing, surreal and sagacious, replete with gods and other monsters, The Book of Love is an astonishing, gorgeous novel written with Link’s unique wit, warmth and ability to get under your skin. – Holly Black
An eldritch Our Town that somehow manages to be both epic and intimate. Link’s language is nimble and startling and goes down so easy. You won’t realize you’re drunk on this story until it’s too late and you’re careening from the spectacularly weird to the wildly funny to an aching grief almost too familiar to bear. A dizzying dream ride you will never forget. – Leigh Bardugo
What more can be said about Kelly Link, that has not been (breathlessly) said already? She is a sorcerer. She is our greatest living fabulist. There is no one like her. And The Book of Love is a luxurious, bewitching novel of exceptional beauty and power * Carmen Maria Machado *
Link has made a modern myth, grand enough to capture all the agony and absurdity and radiance of love itself. This is one of those books that cuts your life in two: before you read it, and after. * Alix E. Harrow *
Link wraps a terrifying core of rusty razor blades in deceptive layers of charming, daffy quirkiness. It’s a confection like no other: one you won’t forget – or regret. * Cory Doctorow *
Magnificently witty in ideas and narrative, sweeping in scale and execution, The Book of Love is an absolute feast of a story, ushering the reader along a path that is always sublime, often hilarious and frequently surreal, and at every single point absolutely rammed full of heart and truth. I am in love with Mo, Laura, Daniel and Suzanne, I want to take a trip to Lovesend, I want to see My Two Hands Both Knowe You play The Kissing Song at the Cliff Hangar, I want to read Caitlynn Hightower’s novels, I want to grab coffee at What Hast Thou Ground? I could have kept reading this story far beyond the last page; I wish I could have lived it for real, just a little. – Melinda Salisbury
A wholly absorbing journey that boasts the hallmarks of Link’s shorter fiction while building out a robust cast of characters in the vividly rendered town of Lovesend. At its heart, Link’s debut is exactly what the title suggests, a moving and deft exploration of the many ways ‘love goes on even when we cannot’ * BookList, starred review *
The Book of Love is pure enchantment – a tale of love, death, magic and teenagers being teenagers, rich with fairy strangeness and told in sentences like jewels strung on a chain. A book to get lost in. – Zen Cho
A playful, ambitious story of magic erupting in the everyday, so vividly drawn * The Bookseller *

Hailed as ‘a sorceress to be reckoned with’ by the New York Times, ‘a national treasure’ by Neil Gaiman’ and ‘inimitable’ by Erin Morgenstern, Kelly Link is one of the most exciting authors writing today. She’s the author of the collections White Cat, Black Dog, Get in Trouble, Pretty Monsters, Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter, dog, and chickens in Massachusetts, where they also own and run Book Moon, an independent bookstore.

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