![]() ![]() ![]() “I needed to put his life into an arrangement that made sense,” Cottrell writes, and it’s a quest that makes for a compelling, emotional read. A 32-year-old woman returns home to investigate her adoptive brother’s death. Patty Yumi Cottrell’s debut novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, is a story that focuses on estrangement and suicide-but despite the serious subject matter, it’s also quirky and funny. Patty Yumi Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace –Kerri Arsenault, Lit Hub contributing editor ![]() With US environmental policy on the verge of its own unraveling, this book feels urgent to policymakers and laypersons alike. Dan Egan (one of those smarter people) has written The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, a terrifying book indicating that the Great Lakes, which comprise 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, are heading toward ecological collapse. Already, skirmishes are erupting: in small towns where conglomerates like Nestlé buy up local water supplies without citizen input or in the occupied Palestinian territories, which boast the biggest aquifer in the West Bank to the consternation of nearby Israeli settlers. Many people smarter than me say the next big war will be about water. –Dustin Illingworth, Lit Hub staff writerĭan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes While both of the included excerpts are the detritus of failed writing assignments from the 70s -one on the American South, the other on the Patty Hearst trial-what remains is a glittering sediment. ![]()
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