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  —Los Angeles Times

  “A girl on the verge searches for her father in Yannick Murphy’s shockingly funny Here They Come.”

  —Vanity Fair

  Other Works

  IN A BEAR’S EYE

  SIGNED, MATA HARI

  HERE THEY COME

  THE SEA OF TREES

  STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

  For Children

  THE COLD WATER WITCH

  BABY POLAR

  AHWOOOOOOOO!

  Credits

  Cover design and illustration by Milan Bozic

  Copyright

  An excerpt from this book originally appeared in McSweeney’s #29.

  THE CALL. Copyright © 2011 by Yannick Murphy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Murphy, Yannick.

  The call : a novel / Yannick Murphy.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-06-202314-8 (pbk.)

  I. Title.

  PS3563.U7635C35 2011

  813′.54—dc22

  2010051661

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  EPub Edition © JUNE 2011 ISBN: 9780062092496

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