Our next meeting of the CBI Book Club, facilitated by Dr. Suzanne Levy Graver, Professor Emerita at Williams College, will meet over Zoom to discuss Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner.

Covering four generations of the Popper family struggling to remain afloat, Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us. A comic and sorrowful tapestry of memory of connection and disconnection, Love and Shame and Love explores the universals with stunning originality and wisdom. Adam Langer of the Chicago Tribune describes it as an “ambitious, kaleidoscopic novel of the Jewish experience in Chicago” and “a more universal story about one family’s thwarted dreams and loves that will likely resonate with those who have never set foot in Chicago.”

All are welcome! This book is available to purchase online in multiple formats. Those who plan on joining us should RSVP via our website; Zoom information will be sent to all who RSVP once the date gets closer.