Peter Orner‘s first book, Ester Stories, has been re-released with an introduction by Marilynne Robinson.
We’ve come to know Peter’s storytelling mastery through the Lonely Voice column here on The Rumpus. The Chicago Tribune noted themes of “distortion, echo and yet clarity of memory.” And, as Margot Livesey wrote in her review of the book when it first came out in 2001, these are all essential ingredients which tell the story of his “real” subject, “the human spirit in all its vexed yearning. Orner doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls.”
