Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Part One: Chapters 1-4 Summary & Analysis

Dani Shapiro
This Study Guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Inheritance.
Related Topics

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Part One: Chapters 1-4 Summary & Analysis

Dani Shapiro
This Study Guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Inheritance.
This section contains 717 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Study Guide

Summary

As a child, Dani Shapiro used to stare at her face in the mirror, waiting to see another face beneath her own. Now, she is fifty-four years old, a wife, mother, writer, and teacher. She stares at her face in the mirror again and sees a stranger staring back at her. Over just one day, "the familiar has vanished" and she needs to tell herself again and again: "You're still you" (3).

Twenty-four hours earlier, Dani compared the results of her at-home DNA test to those of her half-sister Susie. She had been slightly surprised when her results revealed that she was only half Eastern European Ashkenazi, having been raised in a prominent Orthodox Jewish family, but figured there had to be a reasonable explanation for her Western European DNA based on the migration patterns of previous generations. She reminisces about her...

(read more from the Part One: Chapters 1-4 Summary)

This section contains 717 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.