It was like she was writing for her own life, in a sense. When she wrote “Inheritance”, she wrote the first two hundred pages fast, like she was on fire.
“Inheritance” won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award, Wired Magazine named it as one of the year’s top Science books, and was named a best book of 2019 by Vanity Fair. It is an iTunes Top 10 podcast, and it features stories from guests that, like Dani has, uncovered life-changing and long-buried secrets from their families pasts.
In 2019, she launched Family Secrets, an original podcast, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Oprah, Elle, Granta, The New Yorker, among others, and they’ve also been broadcast on NPR. She has also taught at New York University and Columbia, as well as writing workshops all around the world.ĭani is a guest editor of Best New American Voices 2010 and a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. ( From the publisher.Dani is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. 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. It is the story of a woman's 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. 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? Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveĪ 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.
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