Best-selling novelist Dani Shapiro will speak about her new book, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28 at Darien Library. In the book, Shapiro recounts how a the staggering family secret was uncovered by a genealogy test. She also discusses the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and explores paternity, identity, and love. — an announcement from Darien Library
Darien Library is proud to cosponsor this event with the Middlesex Genealogical Society.
Andrew McCarthy, author of Just Fly Away, and Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, will be featured speakers at a “Meet the Authors” event at Darien Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Darien Library Community Room. In Just Fly Away, when fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers she has an eight-year-old brother living just a few blocks away — the result of her father’s brief affair — she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her life. How could Lucy’s father have betrayed the entire family? How could her mother forgive him? And why isn’t her sister rocked by the news the way Lucy is?
Andrew McCarthy, author of Just Fly Away, and Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, will be featured speakers at a “Meet the Authors” event at Darien Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Darien Library Community Room. In Just Fly Away, when fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers she has an eight-year-old brother living just a few blocks away — the result of her father’s brief affair — she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her life. How could Lucy’s father have betrayed the entire family? How could her mother forgive him? And why isn’t her sister rocked by the news the way Lucy is?
