PRAISE FOR LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE'Vibrant and captivating, this novel about three generations of the Popper family of Chicago resonates with truths about human nature....A richly layered, intimate picture of a distinctive but also typical family enduring life's vicissitudes and stoically carrying on.' - - Publishers Weekly ( Starred Review ) - 'Orner [has a] gift for the well-placed single word that can denote full-throttled exasperation....Addictively compelling.' - - Library Journal - 'Orner approaches his narrative with a nonlinear chronology, moving back and forth....The result is a masterful, multifaceted novel. Readers will find both love and shame in abundance in Orner's teeming fictional world.' - - Kirkus Reviews ( Starred Review ) - 'Love and Shame and Love is a marvel. It left me with that feeling we all crave when we read-the sense of wonder you wake with after a dream, realizing just how mysterious is this world.' - Author of God of War - Marisa Silver - 'Auden said that art is born of humiliation, which seems an ideal place to start appreciating Love and Shame and Love. Peter Orner strips every layer of pretense from his characters, not to diminish but rather to reveal them....This is a real and memorable America.' - author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Yiyun Li - 'This is a big, smart, generous, important novel.' - Antonya Nelson, author of Bound - 'I consider Peter Orner an essential American writer, one whose stories unfold with a flawless blend of ease and unpredictability....Esther Stories was among the best story collections of the last decade. Love and Shame and Love is among the best novels of this fresh new one.' - author of The Brief History of the Dead and The Illumination - Kevin Brockmeier
