A Quiet Reorder of Things

THE QUIET REORDER OF THINGS

What happens when life doesn't turn out the way you expected?

The Quiet Reorder of Things, a collection of darkly funny and quietly moving stories explores the strange territory between the life we imagined and the life we actually have.

An elderly couple cling to tea, routine, and a fading sense of order while the world outside their window becomes increasingly absurd. Two brothers arrive at the wrong seaside town and discover that a failed trip can still become something worth remembering. A lonely widow quietly takes back control of a family that has already decided what she owes them. A grieving man begins to step out of the shadow of his past.

Elsewhere, apologies become a professional industry, humiliation becomes entertainment, and a desperate father finds himself pushed to the edge by poverty and disappointment. And then there is Peter, an unremarkable shopkeeper who decides to try living as if the life he always wanted might still be possible.

Funny, melancholy, humane, and occasionally brutal, these stories are populated by people who are lonely, hopeful, foolish, stubborn, kind and sometimes all of those things at once.