A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain

"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 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, author of Ship Fever