Love and Shame and Love, (Paperback)

from RebaRelishesReading

Love and Shame and Love came to me through the First Editions Club at Book Passage. It's the story of a secular Jewish family in Chicago, focusing primarily on Alexander Popper but including significant parts of his parent's and grandparent's lives. The earlier generations were self-made men who ...

from suesbooks

The writing style was so unusual and also somewhat difficult for me. I did not feel that I knew most of the characters well, but I was interested in them and their lives. I would like to learn more about many of them.

from olevia

As another Goodreads reviewer put it, it's an "epic book about non-epic happenings".

from Allizabeth

Description: Love and Shame and Love chronicles four generations of the Chicago-based Popper family as they struggle to come to terms with the choices they've made and the repercussions that followed. Review: Peter Orner is a wonderful American writer whose books, Esther Stories and The Second Co...

from olevia

As another Goodreads reviewer put it, it's an "epic book about non-epic happenings".