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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
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The Society of Shame

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Where did you go, wanderlust?

On Sunday, I saw my 19-year-old daughter Clio off to Argentina for six weeks at a language study program. «Insert tiny sob here» I’ve LOVED having both her and her twin sibling back with us for the past month-ish, and relished the temporary return to what feels normal not “new normal”(i.e. a lake that sometimes goes rogue). More noise, more voices, more shoes. More groceries and dishes, too, but w

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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

“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

“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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