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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.
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 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 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. Writingd
