Catch, Release
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
With Catch, Release, Harun upends the world once more.
Adrianne Harun Books
Adrianne Harun delves into profound human experiences and unexpected artistic influences within her work. Her fiction and essays often explore the darker aspects of life and the human psyche, drawing inspiration from sources such as outsider art. She employs precise language and evocative imagery to craft distinctive literary worlds. Her writings are recognized for their originality and their ability to uncover hidden facets of human experience.
Blending magical realism with deep emotional insight, the collection features a diverse cast, including drifters, waitresses, and a Nigerian foreign exchange student. Each character navigates their own limbo, caught between reality and dreams, showcasing the author's mature storytelling talent. The narrative shifts seamlessly from the magical to the mundane, offering a rich exploration of the human experience reminiscent of literary greats like Alice Munro and Andre Dubus.
“Harun is heir apparent to Louise Erdrich and Harry Crews.... Readers will be swept away by this breathless, absorbing novel.” —Claire Vaye Watkins, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this mysterious and chilling novel, girls, mostly Native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway in the isolated Pacific Northwest. Leo Kreutzer and his friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of enigmatic strangers arrive in their remote mountain town, beguiling and bewitching them. It seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. The intoxicatingly lush debut novel by the acclaimed author of The King of Limbo, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is an unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town, as seductive and beautifully written as the devil’s dark arts are wielded. WINNER OF THE 2015 PINCKLEY PRIZE FOR DEBUT CRIME NOVEL