While some stereotypes are present, such as the depiction of East African women as pantherlike, the book has a diverse cast of characters and a strong woman lead. Similes and vivid imagery adorn nearly every page like glittering garlands.
Harrow employs the image of the door (“Sometimes I feel there are doors lurking in the creases of every sentence, with periods for knobs and verbs for hinges”) as well as the metaphor (a “geometry of absence”) to great effect.
Locke, the world and its hidden doorways, and her own family. With her motley crew of allies-Samuel, the grocer’s son Jane, the Kenyan woman sent by Julian to be January’s companion and Bad, her faithful dog-January embarks on an adventure that will lead her to discover secrets about Mr. When she's 17, her father seemingly disappears, and January finds a book that will change her life forever. Locke and his friends, who treat her as a curiosity-a mixed-race girl with a precocious streak, forced into elaborate outfits and docile behavior for the annual society gatherings. January appears to have a charmed childhood but is stifled by the high-society old boy’s club of Mr. Set at the turn of the 20th century, Harrow's debut novel centers on January Scaller, who grows up under the watchful eye of the wealthy Cornelius Locke, who employs her father, Julian, to travel the globe in search of odd objects and valuable treasures to pad his collection, housed in a sprawling Vermont mansion. An independent young girl finds a blue door in a field and glimpses another world, nudging her onto a path of discovery, destiny, empowerment, and love.
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