num_pages: 252
description: The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity paternity and family secretsa 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 historythe life she had livedcrumbled beneath her.Inheritance is a book about secretssecrets 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 womans 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 ina 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.
language: English
title: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
publisher: Knopf