alix harrow the ten thousand doors of january

Spurred on by the fanciful tale in the leather book, in which the heroine Adelaide “Ade” Larson went out in search of her true love after the Door between them was closed, January decided to go in search of her father. January refused because her father, a man who had spent his life collecting items for the Society, had never been offered membership because he was a black man. As her birthday gift, Locke offered January a membership in the society. Despite January’s grief, Locke forced January to attend the party for the New England Archaeological Society of which he was the chairman. At about this same time, Locke gave January the news that her father was missing, presumed dead. January knew that Locke would never have gifted her that sort of book. It was about Doors and travel from one world to another.

The book had been written by a man named Yule Ian Scholar, a citizen of a world called the Written. However, when she began reading the book, she realized it was not a gift from him. She thought Locke was leaving her these gifts. Ten years later, January discovered a leather-bound book in an Egyptian chest she had deemed as hers because gifts often appeared in that chest. Before she left, January picked up a silver coin from the ground of the strange world she had discovered. January did not explore the city because she heard Locke, her guardian, calling for her. This time she opened the Door onto a land of salt breezes. January wrote a story about the Door in her pocket diary and tried the Door again.

She was in a hay field in Kentucky, disappointed when the blue Door standing near the ruins of a cabin took her nowhere but the other side of the hay field. January was seven when she first discovered a Door. Julian feared for his life and for the life of his daughter, January, as he searched for the Door to take him to the world in which his wife had been trapped years prior when the Door was closed as the family was passing through it. Julian Scaller, employed by William Locke to send him unique artifacts from these other worlds, noticed that the Doors he found were being closed. Harrow, explores the power of words and storytelling as the author imagines a world in which people can access other worlds and cultures through Doors. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Harrow, Alix E.

Alix harrow the ten thousand doors of january