A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories

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 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.

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