The Book of Love (preorder)

(preorder—copies en route to us soon)

Illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook.

Published by Small Beer Press.

We are taking orders for both the signed limited and lettered editions of Kelly Link’s first novel, The Book of Love, which garnered a ton of praise you can check out further down this page.

This edition consists of four volumes each measuring 6.5″ x 9.25″ with the following page counts: 192 pages, 176 pages, 160 pages, and 160 pages.

Lettered Edition

• 26 copies.
• Signed and hand lettered by the author and including a favorite line written out by the author.
• Includes one of Wesley Allsbrook’s thirteen illustrations printed in the style of tarot cards with the endpaper pattern on the reverse.
  Black cloth slipcase.
  
  

Numbered Edition

• 500 copies.
• Signed and hand numbered by the author.
• Each volume contains three unique and exclusive hand-tipped illustrations on 70# coated stock by Wesley Allsbrook plus a bonus illustration in the first volume for a total of thirteen throughout the novel.

Each volume is Smyth Sewn and casebound in 80# Antique paper—Cerulean, Amethyst, Shamrock, Turquoise, respectively—with a gold foil title across the four spines and four different color versions of the cover illustration by Kelly Louise Judd printed and inlaid on blind stamping on the front.

The books were printed on 70# Finch Vanilla paper, with 80# endpapers printed with a design by Wesley Allsbrook.

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

“Pulitzer finalist Link (White Cat, Black Dog) makes a dazzling full-length debut that proves her gloriously idiosyncratic style shines just as brightly at scale… Link dexterously somersaults between tonal registers—from playfully whimsical (love and magic are both explained via a comparison to asparagus) to hair-raising and uncanny (a cat goes from grooming itself to devouring itself whole)—without ever missing a step. This is a masterpiece.”

From Booklist (Starred Review):

“Best known for her magical, whimsical short-story collections such as Get in Trouble (2015) and White Cat, Black Dog (2023), Link now presents an impressively lengthy and wholly immersive debut novel that follows three young people returned from the dead and caught up in an epic supernatural battle. What follows is a wholly absorbing journey that boasts the hallmarks of Link’s shorter fiction while building out a robust cast of characters in the vividly rendered town of Lovesend. At its heart, Link’s debut is exactly what the title suggests, a moving and deft exploration of the many ways ‘love goes on even when we cannot.’”

From Library Journal:

“Link (White Cat, Black Dog) rewards the patient reader with a surprisingly deep story seen through the myriad perspectives of a small town in the midst of chaos, where every person’s life has been skewed by the magic spiraling out around them.”