The Human Zoo

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A return to the subject matter of her debut SLOW BURN, which centered on the Marcos regime, this is a literary novel with a personal bent for Murray, who is Filipino-American. Murray masterfully combines her focus on contemporary Philippine life under Duterte with a historical account of the Human Zoos which exported Filipino tribesmen to the USA for display at the start of the 20th century. Will appeal to fans of politically-driven fiction with characters between two cultures at their core, such as Gina Apostol's INSURRECTO, Viet Thanh Nguyen's THE SYMPATHIZER, PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee, and HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi. Murray's last novel VALIANT GENTLEMEN was a NEW YORK TIMES 100 Notable Books of 2016, a NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice, a WASHINGTON POST Notable Fiction Book of 2016, and one of the WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS Top 25 Books of 2016. It received rave reviews in the NYTBR, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, and LOS ANGELES TIMES, among many others Murray is incredibly well-connected and respected in the literary world and very involved in the Asian American writing community. She was recently in conversation with Amherst colleague Ocean Vuong about equity in creative writing MFAs (https://lithub.com/how-can-we-make-the-mfa-workshop-more-hospitable-to-writers-of-color/) and last year the NYT ran her love letter to Spam (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-spam.html) She has judged major literary awards, like the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.