Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Paperback
by Dani Shapiro
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525434030ISBN-10:525434038UPC:9780525434030Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal MemoirsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCQ0SERJAB
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.
"Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family." --People
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. Inheritance is a book about secrets. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in, a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. Dani Shapiro's memoir unfolds at a breakneck pace--part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are. Inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision.
"Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family." --People
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. Inheritance is a book about secrets. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in, a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. Dani Shapiro's memoir unfolds at a breakneck pace--part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are. Inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525434030ISBN-10:525434038UPC:9780525434030Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal MemoirsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCQ0SERJAB
DANI SHAPIRO is a best-selling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets (now in its seventh season). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York University and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. She lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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