Adrianne Harun is the author of two short story
collections, The King of Limbo, a Washington State Book Award
finalist, and Catch, Release, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award.
Stories from her collections have been listed as Notable in both
Best American Short Stories and Best American Mystery Stories. Her
first novel A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain was
long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, a finalist
for both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the
Washington State Book Award and winner of a Pinckley Prize for
Debut Crime Fiction. A new novel, On the Way to the End of the
World, will be published in September, 2023.
“Readers will be swept away by this breathless, absorbing novel….A
Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain proves that Harun is heir
apparent to Louise Erdrich and Harry Crews.... A mesmerizing
incantation, harrowing and hypnotic.”
--The New York Times Book Review
“An ingenious tale of myth, magic and murder….told in rich
prose….[An] auspicious debut.”
--Seattle Times
“Hypnotic...tantalizing...lush and evocative...Literary and genre
lovers alike can find a striking new voice to celebrate in A Man
Came Out of A Door in the Mountain.”
--Kansas City Star
“A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is literary magic of the
highest order….It reads with the level care of a finely crafted
story…but also with the fresh familiarity of a folksong….A
spectacular read.”
--The Vancouver Sun
“Haunting [and] hypnotic.”
--Seattle Magazine
“A dense and mythic coming-of-age allegory, equal parts fanciful
and horrifying…Each of Harun’s people is fleshed out with maximum
sureness and poetry.”
--Missoula Independent
“In mesmerizing prose, debut novelist Harun spins a
chilling tale shot through with both aching realism and age-old
folktales, melding them together to capture a landscape lush with
possibility and imagination and terrifying in its vast
emptiness.”
--Booklist, starred review
“Intertwining with real-world pain and loss, this debut novel gains
an extra sense of risk and realism, pitting ordinary, human evil
against supernatural wickedness.”
--The Globe and Mail
“Much as it does to the novel’s characters, the gothic ambiance
wraps around the reader and won’t let go.”
--Library Journal
“Harun creates a masterfully bleak and spooky mood, and succinctly
captures the desperation of the young people’s lives…[a] promising
debut.”
--Publishers Weekly
“Through a complex narrative structure, Harun [invests] all of her
action…with an aura of myth and folk legend.”
--Kirkus Reviews
"A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is a rich, haunting,
original novel that captures evil in many forms--mythic, magic and
chillingly real. Adrianne Harun's writing can hold you
breathless."
--Jess Walter, author of The Zero and Beautiful Ruins
“I have long been a fan of Adrianne Harun's work, and A Man Came
Out of a Door in the Mountain has raised my admiration to new
heights. Writing with astonishing vividness, Harun weaves her own
myths and magic as she plots her amazing tale.”
--Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
“Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and
grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil
everywhere.”
--Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner and author of Ship
Fever and Servants of the Map
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