Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today''s finest short story writers – MacArthur ''Genius Grant'' Fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble.Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers – characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose.In ''The White Cat''s Divorce'', an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir.In ''The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear'', a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conference, desperate to get home to her wife and young daughter, and in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed.In ''Skinder''s Veil'', a young man