Shapiro, Dani

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Signal fires

2022
"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child, befriends Ben Wilf, who is struggling with his wife's decline from Alzheimer's, he once again entangles the families' fates and sets in motion the spellbinding, unforgettable climax"--Provided by publisher.

Inheritance

a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
The author describes how she recently submitted her DNA to a genealogy website and discovered that her beloved late father was not her biological father. Details the author's investigation into her past, her search for her biological father, and the role science, ethics, memory, and history play in one's identity.

Inheritance

a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
2019
". . . [The author's] new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life"--Provided by publisher.
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Still writing

the pleasures and perils of a creative life
2013
Examines the process of creative writing and storytelling through the author's personal stories and experiences of living a writer's life and offers lessons and insights to aspiring authors.

Devotion

a memoir
2010
Author Dani Shapiro reflects on her decision to embrace spirituality in her life in order to have a deeper understanding of it.

Family history

a novel
2003
Rachel Jensen seems to have the perfect life, but when her infant son is injured and Rachel is forced to hide the truth, she learns that the foundation she has worked so carefully to create can slip away in an instant.
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