Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

I heard Dani Shapiro interviewed in the NY Times Book podcast and just HAD to read the book. Actually, I took it out as an audio book and was able to hear it read by Dani herself.

This is a fascinating memoir about a woman, the author herself, a early 50's married author with one son, a Sephardic Jew with a long line of Jews in her lineage.  She decides, on a whim, to do a DNA test (Ancestry.com or one of those) and finds out her father is not really her father.

Such a shock to her, but in the back of her mind, she has always felt that something is "not right." She is a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl with no a single relative she resembles in any way.

I will not reveal what she learns, and what she learns about herself, through this revelation, but it's a fabulous book and a gripping memoir.

I highly recommend it!

From GoodReads:

The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life

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