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Jane Roper

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Jane Roper is the author of two novels, The Society of Shame and Eden Lake, and a memoir, Double Time: How I Surived—and Mostly Thrived—Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twints.

Jane’s writing has appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Millions, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Writers’ Digest and elsewhere, and has been included in the anthology Labor Day: True Birth Stories by today’s Best Women Writers.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Williams College, Jane is married to singer/songwriter Alastair Moock. They live with their teenage twins just north of Boston in a drafty Victorian house on a hill. When she is not working, writing, parenting, cooking, hiking, rock climbing or wasting time on so ...more

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	The Society of Shame 3.30 avg rating — 3,024 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double Time: How I Survived---and Mostly Thrived---Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins 3.53 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden Lake 3.76 avg rating — 132 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth by John E. Wade II (Goodreads Author), Donald Frampton (Introduction), Peter J. Tanous (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Double Time] [Author: Roper, Jane] [April, 2013] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I write to you from the frozen depths of the Boston suburbs, where snow and relentless, bitter cold have tormented us for the past several weeks, with no sign of abating. As I write, the wind is howling through the barren trees, and I think I just heard our recycling bin fall over.

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“And in the eye of the public, their sins were the sum total of who they were.”
― Jane Roper, The Society of Shame

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“The thing where I obsess over what other people think of me. People I don’t know or even particularly like. The thing we’re all doing here. Controlling narratives and changing conversations and getting back on top instead of trying to actually—I don’t know, grow.”
― Jane Roper, The Society of Shame

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“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”
― Jane Roper, Eden Lake

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