Mark Athitakis wrote a generous review in the Chicago Sun-Times.  Mark had this to say about the book:

Each photo isn't particularly fascinating by itself -- the people, poses, and clothing are thoroughly ordinary. But set next to each other, in page after page, the pictures seem to gain a new layer of humanity: each person is trying to present his or her best face to the world, and those efforts can be endearing (one elderly man adjusting another's tie) or surprisingly revealing for portrait photography (one woman is clearly so uncomfortable in front of the camera that her smile might as well be a scowl). And the images practically demand that you ask where these people came from, of what became of them -- however revealing the images might be, they're still just slivers of lives, which makes the book simultaneously frustrating and fascinating.

Athitakis also coaxed this detail out of Bitner:

One of Bitner's favorite images the book -- one of an engaged couple holding hands and earnestly gazing at one another -- was identified as Hugh and Kathy Tonegal, who are married and living in LaPorte. "After I found the photos I wanted to enlarge some of the ones I liked, so I had some bigger ones made," Bitner says. "I had to tell them, 'I've had your guys' image on my living-room wall for the last couple of years.'"

Check out the full article here.