This time around, the catalyst is a genetic spit test taken out of idle curiosity in 2016. Inheritance, Shapiro's tenth book and fifth memoir, is a quest to uncover a family mystery involving her identity. The tragedy galvanized her to clean up the wreckage of her life. The accident slammed into 23-year-old Shapiro at a time when her life had veered dangerously off-course: She was a coke-snorting, heavy-drinking college dropout, the "kept" mistress of a friend's stepfather. At its core is the mid-1980s car crash that killed her father and seriously shattered her mother. Twenty years ago, Dani Shapiro's first memoir, Slow Motion, fell into the we-shall-overcome group. Many literary memoirs involve surmounting hurdles or uncovering family secrets in pursuit of self-discovery. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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