an instant new york times bestseller a los angeles times boston globe wall street journal and national indie bestsellernamed a best book of the year by elle vanity fair wired real simple kirkus reviews bookpage memoir gold a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family people magazine beautifully written and deeply moving it brought me to tears more than once ruth franklin the new york times book reviewfrom the acclaimed best selling memoirist novelist and host of the hit podcast family secrets comes a 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 in the spring of 2016 through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her dna for analysis dani shapiro received the stunning 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 inheritance is a book about secrets 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 inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity written with stunning intensity and precision
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