Sorry to Disrupt the Peace: A Novel

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, a nd partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. S he'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 m ight have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reason s is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is quali fied to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a o ne-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and a ttempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estra nged 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 Patrick Cottrell.

Product Info

ISBN: 1944211306

ISBN-13: 9781944211301

Publisher: McSweeney'

Year: 2017

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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