Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / by Dani Shapiro.
"In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing 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. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her conception and, remarkably, find a YouTube video of her biological father--his face and mannerisms eerily similar to her own. [This] 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 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. A haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision--Dani Shapiro's most intimate and compelling work yet."--Dust jacket.
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- ISBN: 1432861808
- ISBN: 9781432861803
- Physical Description: 357 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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Subject: | Shapiro, Dani. Jewish women > United States > Biography. Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography. Women novelists, American > Biography. |
Genre: | Large print books. Autobiographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Jefferson County Library-Northwest | LP B SHAPIRO (Text) | 30000024609384 | Large Print | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | LP BIO SHAPIRO (Text) | 30000024519021 | Large Print | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | LP 818.5403 SHAPIRO (Text) | 2004298189 | Large Print | Available | - |
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Trails Regional-Corder | LT B Sha (Text) | 2204862258 | Large Type Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Inheritance : A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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Inheritance : A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
A New York Times BestsellerIn the spring of 2016, a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis gave Dani Shapiro the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. 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 in the name of love. It is about a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her identity, which was scrupulously hidden from her for over fifty years -- years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history.