📹Join me and Dani Shapiro to discuss her novel “Signal Fires", a magical story for our times, a literary tour de force by a masterful storyteller at the height of her powers. A luminous meditation on family, memory, and the healing power of interconnectedness.
💬Come see why TIME named it BEST Fiction Book of 2022, an NPR Best Book of the Year, and Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction. People Magazine says “In this meditative portrait of tragedy’s long-lasting effects, Shapiro, also a bestselling memoirist, peers into the decades that follow to find the passages, ideas and unexpected connections that gradually, somehow, heal.”
📅You won’t want to miss hearing her discuss her first novel in 15 years….so worth the wait. We talk about why it took her 15 years to get to this novel, where she found it, family, forgiveness, how Dani's secrets affected this novel, loops and straight lines, connectedness, how she planned out the novel and so much more. This novel is a book club waiting to happen b/c so much to discuss.
✨Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
🌳An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. 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. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny.
☄️Division Street is full of secrets. An impulsive lie begets a secret-one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own. 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.
3 ноя 2023
