a dentist with a nicotine habit
and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs
each of us can achieve life to the fullest -- until it overflows
other times hospitalized for months on end
who spares no one from his seething gaze
Love and Shame and Love sisters first a dentist with a nicotineAlexander 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