
The Long Haul delivers because it is a survey of a culture fused to a working man’s memoir-and Murphy, smartly, avoids sentiment and lazy comparisons. Meghan Daum - New York Times Book Review Crawford, author of Shop Class as SoulcraftĮxquisite.… Murphy can cross class boundaries as smoothly as changing lanes on the highway.… Readers even passingly familiar with the burgeoning literary genre we might call hillbilly elegiacs… will find Murphy’s more nuanced perspective refreshing.

The Long Haul is funny and sad and wise, and it shows us the lives of people we depend on. Rich insightful.… A well-written story that rarely slows down. Like a Mark Twain behind the wheel, takes us on the road coast to coast and city to city with a voice that’s honest and direct and sometimes even poetic.
