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Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / Dani Shapiro.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781524732714 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1524732710 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 247 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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| Easton Main Library | 818.54 S529i (Text) | 31901004305506 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Abington Community Library | 818 SHAPIRO (Text) | 50687011614495 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Bethlehem Main Library | 818.54 (Text) | 33062009099343 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked Out | 04/30/2024 |
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. 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.
