![]() 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. She woke up one morning and her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. 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. ![]() What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? ![]() The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets-a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life. ![]()
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