Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
of Dani Shapiro (Goodreads Author)
Description
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.Inheritance is a book about secrets—secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. 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.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252 pages
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
- Publication Date January 15th 2019
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781524732714
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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