Patrick Cottrell. (2017). Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Patrick Cottrell. 2017. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. Blackstone Publishing.

Patrick Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

Patrick Cottrell. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2017.

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

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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 is accepting a furniture delivery 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 Patrick Cottrell.

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     Starred review from November 21, 2016
     In Cottrell’s stellar debut novel, 32-year-old Helen is in her Manhattan apartment when she receives a call that her adoptive brother has killed himself. Helen, who like her brother is Korean and was adopted by the same white Milwaukee couple, is shaken by the news and books a one-way ticket to Milwaukee to find out what happened. But what starts as a detective’s hunt for clues soon becomes Helen’s confrontation of her own place in the world—why she’s estranged from her past (she hasn’t seen her adoptive parents in five years), and what she is doing with her life as a counselor for troubled youth. Finally, Helen comes to terms with her adoptive brother’s suicide. The real attraction here is Helen: her perspective ranges from sharp (New York is “a city so rich it funds poetry”) to askew (“People who call themselves photographers are fake... the real charlatans of our time. Behind a photo is a perfectly fake person, scrubbed of all flaws, dead inside”) to unhinged (her adoptive parents’ grieving takes the physical form of a middle-aged European man who walks around the house and helps himself to pizza). Cottrell gives Helen the impossible task of understanding what would drive another person to suicide, and the result is complex and mysterious, yet, in the end, deeply human and empathetic. Agent: Kate Johnson, Wolf Literary.

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   • content: Narrating Cottrell's perplexing character study is no easy feat. As the protagonist, Helen, searches for clues about the suicide of her adoptive brother, it becomes evident that her perception of herself is not entirely accurate. Nancy Wu's narration largely rises to this challenge. Engaging and humorous, Wu offers a personal and wry reading, although perhaps the disparity between the outside world and Helen's thoughts could be even more pronounced. Also, Wu has a natural rhythm and flow to her reading, which at points work against the unnaturalness of the novel's protagonist. But, overall, Wu brings sensitivity and intelligence to this portrait of an elusive and eccentric woman. Z.S. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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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 is accepting a furniture delivery 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.

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