Sorry to Disrupt the Peace: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Cottrell, Patty Yumi

• Book ID: 109470750
• Publisher: McSweeney’s
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 346 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781944211318

✦ Synopsis

Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She�s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen�s adoptive brother is dead.According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother�s few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.A bleakly comic tour de force that�s by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles�and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.