Dani Shapiro | Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Recorded Jan 22, 2019
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In conversation with Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of twenty-four books, including Going Over, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, and Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River.
Delivering “an eviscerating, raw honesty” (New York Times Book Review), writer’s writer Dani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Devotion, Still Writing, and Hourglass. Her five novels include Black & White and Family History. She is a cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference and a former writing teacher at Columbia University, NYU, and Wesleyan University. A story of identity, family secrets, and love, Inheritance charts the staggering implications of Shapiro’s discovery that her father wasn’t her biological parent.
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