Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
Author: Cottrell, Patrick
ISBN: 9781925498431
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 236mm x 153mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A darkly comic, barefaced and mesmerising exploration of grief, loss and identity by a sublimely talented young writer.
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.
Helen knows what she must do, and 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 debut that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and unsettling, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles-and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
ISBN: 9781925498431
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 236mm x 153mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A darkly comic, barefaced and mesmerising exploration of grief, loss and identity by a sublimely talented young writer.
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.
Helen knows what she must do, and 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 debut that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and unsettling, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles-and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.
