Dani Shapiro Knihy

Examines the process of creative writing and storytelling through the author's personal stories and experiences of living a writer's life and offers lessons and insights to aspiring authors.

Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the nude portraits she took of Clara throughout her childhood. At age eighteen, sick of her notoriety as 'the girl in the pictures', Clara fled New York City, settling and making her own family in small-town Maine. But years later, when Ruth reaches out from her deathbed, Clara suddenly finds herself drawn back to the past she thought she had escaped. From the beloved author of Signal Fires and Family History, Black & White is a moving love letter to those familial bonds that both bruise and make you in equal measure.

This collection features a curated selection of standout titles from 2017, showcasing a diverse range of genres and themes. Each book reflects the year's literary trends and highlights emerging voices alongside established authors. Readers will find compelling narratives that explore complex characters, innovative storytelling, and thought-provoking themes, making it a valuable resource for discovering must-read literature from that year.

A heart-stopping, magical story about human connection unfolds in one neighborhood over a single night, forever altering the lives of its residents. Retired doctor Ben Wilf encounters ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman under an old oak tree, embarking on an unexpected celestial journey. Their connection traces back to the night of Waldo's birth and beyond, revealing buried secrets within the community. The Wilf family, marked by a hidden past, grapples with their choices and the weight of memories. When the Shenkman family moves in across the street, they bring their own mysteries and a brilliant son who is enchanted by the night sky. As their lives intertwine, the past resurfaces, triggering a spellbinding chain of events that will irrevocably transform both families. This exquisite portrait of interconnected lives explores themes of love and loss, showcasing the profound ways we are linked through time. With wry tenderness, it highlights the beauty, mystery, and hope inherent in human relationships. Readers have responded with praise, calling it profoundly moving, beautifully written, and captivating. It has been recognized as a Best Book of the Year by notable publications, affirming its impact and resonance.

Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered—the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still— remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.

From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist - 'a writer of rare talent' (Cheryl Strayed) - a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

Dani Shapiro, a young woman from a deeply religious home, became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney-her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began drinking, and neglected her friends and family. But then came a phone call-an accident on a snowy road had left her parents critically injured. Forced to reconsider her life, Shapiro learned to re-enter the world she had left. Telling of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved through tragedy, Shapiro's memoir is a beautiful account of how a life gone terribly wrong can be rescued through tragedy.

Zwei Frauen – Lucy, Tochter einer traditionellen jüdischen Familie, und Carolyn, wohlhabend und ungestüm – teilen eine seltene Liebe miteinander, bis Lucy den Reizen von Carolines Stiefvater erliegt.

Von Müttern und Töchtern Joanna Hirsch, eine junge Schauspielerin mit ersten Erfolgen, hat sich niemals richtig von dem großen Schock ihrer Kindheit erholt: Als sie zwölf war, verließ ihre Mutter die Familie, um als Malerin Karriere zu machen. Nun ist Joanna zweiunddreißig, und endlich will sie das bedrückende Lebensgefühl überwinden, nicht mehr zu sein als das flüchtige Blau in den Gemälden ihrer Mutter.

Een depressieve vrouw van veertig kijkt terug op de gebeurtenissen, met name de puberteitscrisis van haar dochter, die ertoe leidden dat haar gelukkige gezin uiteenviel.