Sorry To Disrupt The Peace Review

Second book I've read in 2018. 

In 2017 I didn't review many of more than two hundred books I read.

This year I hope to write a review of one or two a month. 

Helen Moran hears the news, her adopted brother dies of apparent suicide. We follow Helen on a one way journey back to her not home to uncover the secrets of his death. At the onset she tells us, "At the time of his death I was a thirty-two-year-old woman, single, childless, irregularly menstruating and partially employed. …Long, long ago I made peace with my plainness."

Helen is not a reliable narrator. She describes her genius at being ethical and detachment from the needy teens at her work. Helen is not "Sister Reliability" as she embellishes, lies and misdirects us with banal details. 

What is uncovered is a dark longing to connect with a past that is not Korean or American, not Midwestern or Urban. 

Patty Yumi Cottrell weaves a story that we must pick through the comedy and magic tricks to come to grips with suicide. 

Cottrell's prose is beautifully clear at haunting the reader's brain to fill the gaps and uncover the signs.

She's not sorry to disrupt. 

Five stars

I own this book if you want to borrow it. 

Newsworthy, off topic the Sea of Trees in Japan, the Aokigahara forest is the down fall of another soul this week  

For immediate intervention:
United States of America – National Suicide Hope Line – 1-800-784-2433. United Kingdom – 08457 90 90 90 or www.samaritans.org.uk. Assistance is available in other countries through www.suicide-helplines.org.

 additional resources with help:
* http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/static/hotlines
* http://www.nationalsafeplace.org/find-a-safe-place
* http://www.katimorton.com/counseling-and-prevention-resources/
* https://www.helpguide.org/service-directory/
* http://hopeafterabortion.com/?page_id=88