Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro. No Advance Reader Copy included. No affiliate links used. You can read my full disclosure policy here.

When Dani Shapiro took a DNA test through a genealogy website in 2016 she wasn't expecting to find out that her dad was not her biological father. Yet that's what happened. As she grapples with the many questions this leaves about her family and her Jewishness, both she and her husband set out to find her biological father. Thanks to the same genealogy website it doesn't take long.

With her biological father found, Shapiro must now try to understand the small pieces of information he shares with her about the circumstances of her birth and his insistence that his privacy and that of his family be respected at all times.

Shapiro’s writing is engaging and situates us in the heart of the story rather than giving us a removed overview of her life-changing experience.

While Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love is one woman's story, I suspect it won't be the last we read about people discovering family secrets as a result of DNA tests/genealogy websites.

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro is published by Daunt Books and is available in hardback, paperback and ebook format.

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