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The Resource Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love, Dani Shapiro

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

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  • "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 made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
  • "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. 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. 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
Language
eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
247 pages
Isbn
9781524732714
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Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
Title
Inheritance
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a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
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Dani Shapiro
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "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 made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
  • "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. 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. 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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autobiography
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Shapiro, Dani
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  • 818/.5403
  • B
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no index present
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non fiction
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  • Shapiro, Dani
  • Shapiro, Dani
  • Women novelists, American
  • Novelists, American
  • Jewish women
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Genetic genealogy
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • Jewish women
  • Novelists, American
  • Women novelists, American
  • United States
  • United States
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Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love, Dani Shapiro
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Control code
on1037283684
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
247 pages
Isbn
9781524732714
Lccn
2018024082
System control number
(OCoLC)1037283684
Label
Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love, Dani Shapiro
Publication
Control code
on1037283684
Dimensions
22 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
247 pages
Isbn
9781524732714
Lccn
2018024082
System control number
(OCoLC)1037283684

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