DANIEL SHAPIRO

A New York Times BestsellerProfound Shapiros account is beautifully written and deeply moving it brought me to tears more than once. -- New York TimesAll my life I had known there was a secret. What I hadnt known: the secret was me.In the spring of 2016 Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. Months earlier, on a whim, she had submitted her DNA to a genealogy website for analysis. The results were astonishing, and revealed that everything she had believed about her life had been a lie.Shapiros parents were no longer alive. With no one to turn to, and only a handful of figures on a webpage, Shapiro set out to discover the truth about herself and her identity.Inheritance is a genetic detective story; a memoir that reads like a thriller. It is a book about family secrets kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in, where science and technology have outpaced both medical ethics and the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.Reads like a beautiful, lived novel, moving and personal and true.-- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female PersuasionA fantastic writer. -- Dolly AldertonA meditation on what it means to live in a time when secrecy, anonymity and mystery are vanishing. [Inheritance] encapsulates an ethical quandary with which our society has yet to fully grapple. -- The New YorkerShapiro writes with poetic precision in prose that sometimes sings. And she knows how to tell a story... Fascinating. -- Sunday TimesThose who like to insist that blood is always thicker than water should read Inheritance, and let their own hearts slowly and gently expand. -- Rachel Cooke, ObserverAn intensely personal story, and a beautifully written enquiry into belonging and self. So warm and deft. I envy those yet to read it. -- Nigella LawsonA compulsively-readable investigation into selfhood that burrows to the heart of what it means to accept, to love and to belong. -- Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeA writer of rare talent. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

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Una constelación de vidas alteradas para siempre por una decisión fatídica. "Señales en la noche" comienza una noche de verano de 1985. Tres adolescentes han estado bebiendo. Deciden coger un coche y, en un instante, todo cambia en Division Street. Cada una de sus vidas y la de Ben Wilf, un joven medico que acude al lugar del accidente, se hacen añicos. Para la familia Wilf, las circunstancias que rodean este terrible accidente se convertiran en un secreto insondable, tan grave que no volveran a hablar de ello. En Division Street ha pasado el tiempo. Cuando llegan los Shenkman un matrimonio joven que espera un bebe, la vida sigue como si el accidente nunca hubiese ocurrido. Pero Waldo, el hijo solitario y especial de los Shenkman, un chico fascinado por la belleza del mundo y con una habilidad innata para encontrar conexiones en todas partes, se hace amigo del doctor Wilf, que ya esta jubilado y sufre por el deterioro de su esposa, y el pasado se precipita en su vida de formas que nadie esperaba. En su primera obra de ficcion en quince años, Dani Shapiro retoma el genero con el que se inicio como escritora, con una novela fascinante y extremadamente sensible que profundiza en los vinculos que unen a las familias, y tambien en los secretos que pueden destrozarlas. Señales en la noche es una historia de una inquietante belleza, salida de la pluma de una habil narradora.

Rachel Jensen has an idyllic life until an accident sets in motion a train of events, based on a deception, that changes everything for the worse. Dani Shapiro's novel is about the realization all parents must face: that they cannot keep their children safe forever.