John Murray
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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories
John Murray
In this remarkably assured and satisfying debut collection, John Murray seamlessly meshes fact with fiction, taking his inspiration from the worlds of science, medicine, and nature. The stories are set in intriguing locations across the globe—a cholera tent in the slums of Bombay, a United Nations refugee camp in the mountains of Africa, a Key West hideaway—where his characters, among them doctors, nurses, research scientists, explorers, and collectors, can be found reading The Manual of Clinical Microbiology or Gray’s Anatomy or the Complete Textbook of Psychiatry.
And yet, despite the pull of the outer world, these stories are all about the internal world of emotions—love, loss, obsession, and conflict—and about families and how they survive. They unfold to tell of moments when people catch glimpses of their real selves, their pasts, and have flashes of understanding about their lives. In “The Hill Station,” an American-born scientist is drawn to Bombay, the homeland of her parents, where she breaks free from the confines of her well-ordered life. The title…
