![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I have dreamt of them, wrestled with them, longed for them. The ancestors on her father’s side of the family, who fled Eastern Europe and became leaders of modern Orthodoxy, “are the foundation upon which I have built my life,” she writes. Shapiro grew up in a prominent observant Jewish family, a family and faith she has mined deeply in her earlier memoirs and novels. I’ve watched her navigate the flurry of shock and wonder, confusion and relief, that has come with this revelation, a discombobulation that Dani Shapiro unpacks in her gripping new book, “Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love,” written after she, too, received DNA results that shook her to the core. A little more than a year ago, one of my closest friends learned through a genealogy website’s DNA test that the father who raised her was not her biological father. ![]()
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