12th (I am not tryna spell "twelth?f?”th, these stories deserve to be 13th, alas) book of 2024: “Magic for Beginners”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners). Yep.

Magic for Beginners - Kelly LinkRandom House re-released Magic for Beginners with a newly designed cover and an added conversation between Joe Hill and Kelly Link. Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, and Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Kelly Link reconstructs modern […]Kelly Link
Figure 1. Link preview of https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, "Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link".

Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).

the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
Figure 2. the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
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