Inheritance a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist -- "a writer of rare talent" (Cheryl Strayed) -- 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...
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| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Audio,
2019.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist -- "a writer of rare talent" (Cheryl Strayed) -- 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. What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? 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. She woke up one morning and her entire history -- the life she had lived -- crumbled beneath her. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Unabridged. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (6 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: | 06:44:10 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 189476 KB). |
| ISBN: | 9781984840240 |
| Author Notes: | Dani Shapiro was born on April 10,1962 in New Jersey. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where she studied under Grace Paley. She began writing fo rthe screen and adapted Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" for HBO. She has also been a professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University and an instructor at Columbia University. She has since written five novels and 3 memoirs. Her novels include: Playing with Fire, Fugitive Blue, Picturing the Wreck, Family History and Black and White. Her memoirs are Hourglass, Slow Motion, Devotion, and Inheritance. (Bowker Author Biography) |
