{"product_id":"sorry-to-disrupt-the-peace-patrick-cottrell-9781963270648","title":"Sorry to Disrupt the Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording 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 \u003ci\u003ethe abyss.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Cottrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963270649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963270648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Patrick Cottrell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154155122943,"sku":"9781963270648","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bbf03e1-8ad6-4371-a363-3fc413a48f82.jpg?v=1770788261","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sorry-to-disrupt-the-peace-patrick-cottrell-9781963270648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}