Things That Are Funny on a Submarine But Not Really

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A deeply funny and achingly honest coming-of-age story surfacing from the pressures of Navy life and the weight of what comes after. "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 "Quite possibly the best novel about the peacetime Navy since Darryl Ponicsan's The Last Detail ."— Publishers Weekly , starred review "The rollicking, sometimes frightening, in-the-end surprisingly moving evolution of a submariner into a mensch."— Kirkus Reviews , starred review A nuclear submarine exists due to the laws of physics and for the laws of man. A submariner survives surrounded by high-yield