Now ten years old, smart but socially awkward Waldo, whose interest in astronomy enrages his controlling father, finds solace in his visits with Ben until twin disasters put the two families on a collision course. The one bright spot in Ben’s life is his conversations with neighbor Waldo Shenkman, whose life was saved by Ben when Waldo’s mother went into labor at home during a snowstorm. Ben is left to manage his beloved Mimi’s advancing dementia, finally moving her to a nearby nursing home. Theo, after years cut off from his parents and sister, now owns an exclusive restaurant in Brooklyn. Over time, Sarah moves to California, juggling a successful career as a movie producer with the demands of her own family. The fallout from a catastrophic car crash involving Sarah and Theo is made worse by the family’s decision never to speak of it.
( From the publisher.In the summer of 1985, the Wilfs-Ben, a doctor his wife, Mimi and their teenage children, Sarah and Theo-go from idyllic family closeness to a fractured unit in an instant. 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. 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. 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. She woke up one morning and her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. In a string of engaging memoirs and five novels, including Hourglass, Black & White, and Family History, Shapiro has explored the infinite. 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. What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveĪ 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.
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