Inheritance / Shapiro, Dani

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.

". . . [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.