"Here are three compelling stories told with a sardonic wit and humour that makes the reader read on: the story as journey, as journal, as poetic diary, as quest for the characters themselves— the journalist, the daughter of an advertising executive, the survivors of torture— who are piecing together the story to make sense of and to order the madness of the world around and within us. Murphy makes popular fictions in the manner of Daphne Marlatt, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Doris Lessing: her subjects, like theirs, nothing less, nothing more than the matters of the world, matters of the human or not-so-humane heart"— Leila Sujir