Love and Shame and Love book-new-arrivals-2025-04-09 Participants in the system accumulate

Participants in the system accumulate bargaining power and shift costs in a zero-sum competition

all towards one goal—union with God

No reader will be complete without it

her mother's mother seemed an almost unimaginably powerful figure: an imperious arbiter of good taste and a master storyteller

Auerbach used his

Love and Shame and Love book-new-arrivals-2025-04-09 Participants in the system accumulateAlexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal