About the book
A DNA test sent on a whim to a genealogy website in the spring of 2016 told Dani Shapiro that her late, beloved father was not her biological father. Within hours of searching online she had pieced together the story of her conception and found a YouTube video of the man who was, with a face and mannerisms much like hers. Shapiro, a memoirist, novelist and author of Hourglass, recounts the search in real time, part mystery and part reflection on kinship. She looks at secrets families keep out of shame or love, including one kept from her for over fifty years, and at the ethics of fertility treatment and DNA testing. It became a New York Times best seller.
Anthony Doerr endorsed it as a highly readable inquiry into selfhood and into what acceptance, love and belonging mean.
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Anthony Doerr (Author)
When Dani Shapiro discovers, purely by accident, that the father who raised her was not her biological father, she embarks upon a profound journey of understanding. What is ancestry? What is identity? Inheritance is a compulsively-readable investigation into selfhood that burrows to the heart of what it means to accept, to love, and to belong.
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