Hi, Friends! Get in My Kindle is fast becoming my favorite feature of this site. Today’s book is another I can’t wait to read when it releases. Unlike the previous book, an essay collection, this one is a memoir by author and writing teacher Dani Shapiro.
Like many aspiring authors, I have a copy of Still Writing on my writing craft book shelf, but I wouldn’t have called myself a Dani Shapiro fan until I started following her on social media. Instagram suggested her as someone I should follow when I first joined. Since then, I’ve been closely following her posts. I was interested in Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, a memoir on marriage, but I decided to wait until the paperback version was available. Hourglass got lost in the flood of new books and suggestions, but I kept following Dani (I feel like I can call her Dani because her posts are so personal).
All authors and creators can learn a thing or two about creating investment and enticing readers from Dani Shapiro. She’s been posting throughout the process of writing her upcoming release Inheritance. Her followers have heard about the journey of this book, how what she discovered was changing her, how the writing of this story was changing her, and how it was changing everything she thought she knew about herself. We know this story was shocking and important, that it dealt with a family secret, but we didn’t know what this story was. I was hooked.
Finally, the wait is over, and the book is here! Here’s the description:
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
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 history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her.
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 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 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.
Timely and unforgettable, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy, paternity, and love.
Isn’t this description intriguing? I can’t wait to get this one! We’ll have to wait until January, but I think it might be worth it. It’s one of many releases I’m pre-ordering. If you’re interested, here are the pertinent details:
Title: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Author: Dani Shapiro
Release Date: January 15, 2019
My Amazon Associate links to pre-order your copy of Inheritance:
Will you be reading Inheritance? What book(s) are you looking forward to?
By Her Shelf 
One thought on “Get In My Kindle: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro”