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" Inheritance zooms in on the blind spots that result when reproductive technology outpaces an understanding of its consequences. Just as you think you've crested the big reveal, Shapiro builds more tension, chapter by short chapter she keeps you close as she feels her way through unfamiliar terrain." - Newsday

" swift moving narrative of profound personal disorientation. "Shapiro is skilled at spinning her personal explorations into narrative gold." - NPR "A meditation on what it means to live in a time when secrecy, anonymity, and mystery are vanishing." - The New Yorker a story told with great insight and honesty and heart." - San Francisco Chronicle "As compulsively readable as a mystery novel, while exploring the deeper mysteries of identity and family and truth itself. "The writing is that of a true storyteller who will not stop until she has bored down to the bottom of where she came from, and in this she is at her narrative best." - Oprah Magazine As in the best writing on the self, the point is the integrity of her search." - Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker Inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision.Ī Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Bustle, Real Simple, PopSugar, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2019 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. 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 had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. Over the course of a single day, her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. 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.

"Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family." - People

Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets 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.