In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.