The Ten Thousand Doors of January Summary
Alix E. Harrow

The Ten Thousand Doors of January Overview

In The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, January Scaller found a Door when she was seven years old that led to a land drastically different from the Kentucky hay field where she had been standing. Ten years later, January learned the truth about the role similar Doors had played in the lives of her parents, the man she believed was her loving guardian, and her own heritage. These truths set January on a journey to locate her Door and find out who was closing the Doors. Themes in the novel include the collision between race and privilege, the magic of reading and writing, and the misuse of power.