Request #341 From Katie

I’m seeking a book—I think it’s YA, think I read it in middle school from the library? But it’s pretty dark but also lighthearted-ish. (Content warning for suicide and gun violence—if this isn’t something you’re ok with reading, please disregard my request) It’s set in—old-timey times, I don’t know, women wearing bonnets, horse-drawn carriages. But the distinctive details are that a woman is married to a guy she thinks is an idiot and lets him know it. She’s awful to him. The thing she complains about the most is that he was painting their house and he painted a dead roach into the fireplace mantel. One day, he decides to kill himself. But he drapes a large tarp in the living room before using the shotgun on himself, because he knows she’d be furious at the mess more than anything. (She’s a horrible woman, this is well established) But still, she finds a way to blame him—he killed himself at the end of winter, and she had a brand new pastel floral dress she wanted to wear, but now she has to be in mourning and wear black for a whole year, ugh (yep she’s awful)