A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mount..., Adrianne Harun
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mount..., Adrianne Harun
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A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain

Author: Adrianne Harun

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/12/2014


Synopsis

In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them.

In this intoxicatingly lush debut novel, Adrianne Harun weaves together folklore, mythology, and elements of magical realism to create a compelling and unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town. A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is atmospheric and evocative of place and a group of people, much in the way that Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones conjures the South, or Charles Bock's Beautiful Children provides a glimpse of the Las Vegas underworld: kids left to fend for themselves in a broken world—rendered with grit and poetry in equal measure.

About Adrianne Harun

Adrianne Harun teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshops, an MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University, and is the author of the acclaimed short story collection The King of Limbo. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on August 17, 2018

See, you know us. Or think you do. i loved this book. it reminded me very much of Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone which is a sort of short story cycle/novel about a group of young folk who encounter the devil in small-town germany and the havoc he creates in their town and to their relat......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on June 06, 2014

This short, debut novel could have been one of my favorites from this year - set in an isolated, remote town in northern British Columbia where young, mostly native women disappear without a trace near a notorious highway (based on a real series of unexplained murders in BC). It's a typical small de......more

Goodreads review by Skip on April 26, 2014

The NY Times Book Review concluded "This novel is a mesmerizing incantation, harrowing and hypnotic." I have to disagree. While I think Harun's descriptive prose is excellent, even poetic at times, I did not connect with the characters and had trouble remembering all of them. Based on British Columb......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 16, 2014

[URL not allowed] This is the end. This is the end. This is the end (okay, not the Seth Rogen movie). I turned the last page of Adrianne Harun’s A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain and those were the words going through my mind. Throughout Harun’s debut novel, there were m......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on February 25, 2014

[URL not allowed] A Man Came Out of a Door In the Mountain is mostly told in the voice of Leo Kreutzer, a teen that lives with his mother and ailing Uncle Lud, to whom he is a caretaker, along with his mother. For the most part, life is a struggle for Leo and his friends Bryan,......more