She encounters rough waters throughout her quest, yet love remains the “unknown thought” she never gave up on. She tenderly recalls how he taught her about his Jewish heritage, which makes up a major part of the fabric of her self-narrative surrounding her paternity. Shapiro elaborates on how he was the only father she ever knew, and they shared an unbreakable bond until his passing when she was in her twenties. In this memoir, Shapiro takes readers on a rocky ride through her personal genealogic discoveries specifically, finding out after five decades that the man she knew as her father was not her biological father. A psychoanalytic spin on the “unthought known” stream of one woman’s stumble upon the narrative of self, reflective of intuitive synchronicity, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love bursts the bubbles of vintage notions of the perfect family, or at least the façade of what the perfect family should have been.
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