Description: Inheritance : A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Paperback by Shapiro, Dani, ISBN 0525434038, ISBN-13 9780525434030, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family.” —People Magazine
“Beautifully written and deeply moving—it brought me to tears more than once.”—Ruth Franklin, The New York Times Book Review
From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets, comes 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.
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 womans 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.
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Book Title: Inheritance : a Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Women, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Women's Studies
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 9.2 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Dani Shapiro
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
