This is one of the few times I gave 5 stars to a short story collection. There's always this one or those two stories spoiling the perfect score. Not here! 
 It's weird how many versions of weird there are: Borges-weird, Calvino-weird, Poe-weird, Vandermeer-weird, Millhauser-weird, Lucia Berlin-weird, The story of my teeth-weird, etc. etc. 
 Strange stories that allow us to dive into depths of imagination without the worry of having lost our minds. How fun is that in our awfully sane society (on the outside that is). 
 The difficulty with all-out-fantastic tales is to keep them compelling, engaging, fun, cool and even humane and within limits. Kelly Link had me hooked, blown away, laughing, gasping, thinking, imagining, seeing and there was still enough heart in there to be moved. 
 I'll now read everything she's ever written (with enough sane books in between) 
 Btw. The audiobook is great!