She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? A luminous meditation on family, memory, and the healing power of interconnectedness. Urgent and compassionate, Signal Fires is a magical story for our times, a literary tour de force by a masterful storyteller at the height of her powers. Spanning fifty kaleidoscopic years, on a street-and in a galaxy-where stars collapse and stories collide, these two families become bound in ways they never could have imagined. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own. An impulsive lie begets a secret-one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. Across time and space, and shared destiny.ĭivision Street is full of secrets. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before.
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