Kelly Link's stories are so imaginative, so fully formed, and so engrossing that I found myself wishing this was a far longer work. The stories are so different, all in their own complete world, each exploring themes of our relationships with the world and with others, but each looking from a different angle, skewed in such a way that you see something that you hadn't imagined before "Secret Identity" has a twist that I won't discuss, but it's told by a young woman ("almost sixteen!") who may have misled her thirty-two year-old online boyfriend ("he's not a pervert"). He may have misled her, too though, and not about his age.
"Origin Story" unfolds with a super-hero returning to his small-town home and reconnecting with his high-school sweetheart who was also his first sidekick. Again, everyone has their secrets.
I listened to over half of this on downloadable audio. The stories are each read by a different narrator and they are uniformly excellently done.
Great reading, great listening, great fun.
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