Sorry to Disrupt the Peace - Couverture souple

Cottrell, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1963270649 ISBN 13 : 9781963270648

Editeur : McSweeney's, 2026

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 had shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles --as it announced to the world the singular voice of Patrick Cottrell.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patrick Cottrell's work has appeared in BOMB, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review, among other places. He lives in Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McSweeney's
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1963270649
• ISBN 13: 9781963270648
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible