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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Patricia Murphy – My Brother’s Genius. The writer will write a memoir about her brother, describing the dynamics of a family of four who survive the implosion of mental illness, addiction, and self-destructive behavior. The story will explore how the writer, a socially more compliant student, survived and thrived in school, while her brother, a musical genius, floundered—prescribing their different paths into adulthood. Murphy lives in Phoenix. Panel Comments: Murphy is presenting to the literary world a new venture in childhood memoir. Her perception is so new and original that we cannot help but predict that it will revise everyone’s sense of what memoir is or can be.
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