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Kelly Link has lit-up person fictional publishing—and Viking is recognized to write her first YA tale selection. Through the lens of Link’s vibrant imagination, nothing is what it appears, and everything deserves another glance. In the numerous award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” where a teenager’s grandma bears a whole town (or could it be a guy-eating pet?) in her handbag, towards the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a football-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to reach, Link’s tales are humorous and saturated in sudden observations and skewed views about the globe. Her followers vary from Michael Chabon to Peter Dollar of R.E.M.