RaveThe Portland MercuryIn chatty first-person narration, Helen seems at first charmingly offbeat, but soon something—apart from the brother’s tragedy—is worryingly amiss ... Sorry to Disrupt the Peace is a riveting, tragicomic examination of a character who understands herself one way—as good, self-sacrificing, pragmatic, helpful—even when no one else around her sees her as such.
Randa Jarrar
RaveThe Portland MercuryFunny and darkly imaginative ... Jarrar’s fiction has exciting range, and she investigates narrative as well as social taboo. Even when her often-fantastical stories veer towards fable, she subverts any expectation of threadbare fairy tale, always finding affecting depths ... In addition to the tremendous imagination that infuses these stories, I’m impressed by their economy and structure.
Susan Faludi
RaveThe Portland Mercury...what makes this book utterly absorbing and emotionally compelling is its incisive examination of all the stories and histories in which Faludi locates her father ... Faludi is sensitive to the uncanny coincidences of the factual and the figurative, and she explores these intelligently ... the way Faludi represents this development is skillful and moving.
