Summer We Were Lost in Space

Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels This Is the Water, The Call, Signed, Mata Hari, Here They Come, The Sea of Trees, and Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really. Her story collections include By the Time You Read This, Stories in Another Language, and In a Bear’s Eye. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Pushcart Prize, a Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting award.

Praise for Yannick Murphy“Murphy, a fiction writer of vibrant imagination, wit, and nuance, returns after a long hiatus with a bravura first-person performance in the voice of a kind and curious submarine radioman. . . a soulful and charismatic protagonist in an uncanny, transfixing, and revelatory bildungsroman.”—Booklist, starred review (on Things That Are Funny on a Submarine)“Quite possibly the best novel about the peacetime Navy since Darryl Ponicsan’s The Last Detail.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review (on Things That Are Funny on a Submarine)“The rollicking, sometimes frightening, in-the-end surprisingly moving evolution of a submariner into a mensch.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review (on Things That Are Funny on a Submarine)“Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behavior. . . . Murphy’s work provides pretty much unexceeded reading pleasure.”—Dave Eggers (on This Is the Water)“Murphy’s cool, minimalist style is undeniably appealing.”—Publishers Weekly (on The Call)“A wild romp of a book, I inhaled Things That Are Funny on a Submarine But Not Really. David ‘Dead Man’ Sterling's voice is that of most any decent junior sailor's or soldier's, disgruntled yet capable, representing America across the reaches of the globe in all our might and absurdity. Yannick Murphy's written a very fine novel that transcends the military-civilian divide because of its sharp humor and humanity.”—Matt Gallagher, author of Daybreak