In stories and styles ranging from the magic realism of "Lukudi," to the carefully modulated madness of "The Eighth Sleeper of Ephesus," to the gritty realistic portrait of domestic trauma in the title story, Adrianne Harun again and again displays a unique ability to view the world from a dazzling array of perspectives, and to transcend the facts of everyday situations to attain poetry and truth. In The King of Limbo and Other Stories, Adrianne Harun emerges as a consummate stylist and a writer to watch.

"These stories surprise at first, literary and wild, and then get funny, and then you read them for pleasure alone. We may properly expect things of Adrianne Harun."
— Padgett Powell

"These are eloquent stories about restlessness and longing. In them Adrianne Harun manipulates darkness and light, humor and pathos, the familiar and the strange, managing both to reveal the peculiarity at the heart of the commonplace and to transform the extraordinary into something inevitable and real."
— Alice McDermott

"In The King of Limbo and Other Stories, Adrianne Harun writes beautifully of the world we thought we knew, showing it to us from unexpected angles, and introduces us to her own unmistakable world. Her fierce, delightful stories are like no one else's. This is an enthralling collection.
— Margot Livesey

"There's something truly magical in these stories, and the magic isn't just Adrianne Harun's great storytelling skills. Rather she possesses the rare ability to see the world at an odd tilt that makes everything appear new, at times even to shimmer."
— Richard Russo

"Adrianne Harun's stories are elegant, mysterious, and polished. They balance perfectly on the edge between ordinary life and dreams. Her landscapes are places you would love to visit, and her characters, be they hopeful, grieving, or disquieted, are rendered with great sympathy. The King of Limbo is a wonderful work of the imagination."
— Jean Thompson

"Adrianne Harun's stories are elegant, funny, and well-designed."
— Charles Baxter