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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." ( Amazon.

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. While I couldnt always relate to the authors obsession with digging into the secrets of her past, this memoir was a page-turner and extremely thought provoking, and she is a compelling writer. 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. Dani Shapiro (Goodreads Author) Lisa DiRocco s review really liked it. She woke up one morning and her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. 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.

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro is published by Daunt Books, 289 pages."What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? And as with many advanced medical treatments these days, a whole lot of ethical questions follow in its trail, which is exactly what makes this book an interesting read. I won’t reveal too much about what happens next, suffice to say that it involves a somewhat shady infertility clinic, some experimental treatments and a few tight-lipped people. (If there’s one thing this book is missing, it’s a deeper understanding of Shapiro’s fraught relationship with her mother.)

‘You could have gotten us bread from the Nazis’ and old family friend says to her as a little girl.Īs she starts digging, Shapiro is heart-broken to find out that the father she loved above all, who long passed away, was not her biological father and the mother she never got along with is in fact her only known genetic link. With her blond hair, blue eyes and pink cheeks she stood out from those around her. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro is a human story which raises some compelling ethical dilemmas and is well worth your time. I was enthralled by Shapiro’s detective work as I joined her emotional rollercoaster to find out why, how and who.

Having been raised in an orthodox Jewish family, this raises all kinds of questions about identity and belonging. The genealogy test results show that not only is she fathered by someone else, but she also has a lot less Jewish DNA than she thought. At the age of 54, author Dani Shapiro discovers that her father is not the man who raised her.