Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner - Award-Winning Novel | Family Saga & Coming-of-Age Story | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Fiction Lovers" （假设这是本小说类商品，我按文学类书籍优化） 或者如果是其他品类： "Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner - Bestselling Contemporary Fiction Novel | Emotional Family Drama | Great for Gifts & Relaxing Reading" （根据实际商品类型可调整关键词）

Alexander 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 grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely independent Kat, wrestles with impossible choices.

Covering four generations of the Popper family, Peter 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.

Hardcover book 2011