NCB Book Discussion: Inheritance: a memoir by Dani Shapiro In-Person
Spring 2016: from 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. Her entire history crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she pieced together the story of her conception and found a YouTube video of her biological father--his face and mannerisms eerily similar to her own. Inheritance is about secrets kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; kept 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, scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. It is 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.
- Date:
- Tuesday, July 9, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- North County Branch Library Upstairs Meeting Room
- Location:
- North County Branch Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Club