Bibliograph

Inheritance, a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love, Dani Shapiro

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Label

Inheritance, a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love, Dani Shapiro

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inheritance

Responsibility statement

Dani Shapiro

Sub title

a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love

Summary

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 book is about 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

Target audience

general

Classification