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Order a copy of my upcoming book, THE CALL, coming out August 2011 from HarperPerennial. "A triumph of quiet humor and understated beauty. ... Murphy's subtle, wry wit and an appealing sense for the surreal leaven moments of anger and bleakness, and elevate moments of kindness, whimsy, and grace." -- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly |
Little, Brown & Co. published SIGNED, MATA HARI in November 2007. "[An] alluring novel, ... hypnotic [and as] softly poetic as it is insistent, [Signed, Mata Hari] it entices the reader from the first lines to give Mata Hari what she always craved: not the secrets that are the currency of a spy, but the rapt attention that is oxygen to a performer." -- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly |
 A New York Times Editor's Choice |
| Tricycle Press of Crown Publishing published "The Cold Water Witch" in the Fall of 2010. |
Books
THE CALL a novel
(HarperPerennial) Forthcoming August '11.
THE COLD WATER WITCH a children's book
(Tricycle Books) Fall '10.
BABY POLAR a children's book
(Clarion Books) '09.
SIGNED, MATA HARI a novel
(Little Brown & Co) '07.
IN A BEAR'S EYE stories
(Dzanc Books) '08.
HERE THEY COME stories
(McSweeney's Books) March '06.
AHWOOOOOOOO! a children's book
(Clarion Books) June '06.
THE SEA OF TREES a novel
(Houghton Mifflin 1997)
—"The Sea of Trees" was a New York Times most Notable
Book 1997
—"The Sea of Trees" was included in "The Best Novels
of the Nineties" by Linda Parent Lesher
STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE stories
(Alfred A. Knopf 1987)
Recent Short Stories
"The Good Word"
One Story issue #109 '09
Included in the "Best Required Non-Reading" 2009 edition
"The Un-Son"
TriQuarterly issue #133 '09
