“Elegant yet intimate, this is a book that gets into your head and makes itself at home there. Orner’s Love and Shame and Love is more like the James Salter of Light Years and A Sport and a Pastime, with their acutely observed domestic and sexual tension.” – New York Times

“Orner is unusually gifted at creating freighted moments of despair that generate far more impact than their size would suggest.” – Washington Post

 “An ambitious, kaleidoscopic novel of the Jewish experience in Chicago….Love and Shame and Love serves not only as an ode to the history of Chicago, but to Chicago literature itself….But the more universal story of the Poppers’ thwarted dreams and loves will likely resonate with those who have never set foot in Chicago or its northern suburbs.” — Chicago Tribune

“Beautiful…. Think Saul Bellow (Chicago setting, rollicking Jewish-style comedy) mated with Chekhov (unassuming, devastating detail), set to the twangy thump of early Tom Petty. Now that promises quite a love child….” — Boston Globe

“Mr. Orner has found a way of making loss and reclamation exist side by side.” —Wall Street Journal

“From his first story collection, Esther Stories, on to his most recent novel, Love Shame and Love, Peter Orner has established himself as one of the most distinctive American voices of his generation.” – Granta