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In Conversation: On Real Estate: A Living Autobiography & Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

In Conversation: On Real Estate: A Living Autobiography & Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

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Levy, Deborah, Shapiro, Dani
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Real Estate: A Living Autobiography, the third and final installment in the Deborah Levy series, blends personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory in an examination of womanhood and ownership. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love chronicles Dani Shapiro’s quest to unlock the story of her own identity, after she casually submitted her DNA to a genealogy website and discovered that her beloved deceased father was not her biological parent.

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Dani Shapiro is the author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, Devotion: A Memoir, and Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy, and five novels, including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist, Shapiro’s short fiction, essays, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker; Granta; Tin House; One Story; Elle; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times Book Review; and many other publications. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website where she had casually submitted her DNA for analysis, Shapiro learned that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Part mystery, part real-time investigation, and part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love chronicles her quest to unlock the story of her own identity. Over the course of a single day, her entire history – the life she had lived – crumbled beneath her. The Seattle Times noted that “Inheritance zooms in on the blind spots that result when reproductive technology outpaces an understanding of its consequences. In viewing this important and timely topic through a highly personal lens, Inheritance succeeds admirably.”

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Deborah Levy trained at England’s Dartington College of Arts before becoming a playwright. Her works for the stage include Pax, Heresies, Clam, Call Blue Jane, Shiny Nylon, Honey Baby Middle England, Pushing the Prince into Denmark, and Macbeth-False Memories. She has also written several novels, including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, and Billy and Girl. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography (Bloomsbury Publishing) is a thought-provoking and intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in our patriarchal society. It’s the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize-nominated Levy’s Living Autobiography series. In Real Estate, she crafts a searing examination of womanhood and ownership while blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory. Her inventory of possessions, real and imagined, pushes readers to question their cultural understanding of belonging and belongings, and to consider the value of a woman’s intellectual and personal life. Publishers Weekly called it an “incandescent meditation on writing, womanhood, and the places that nurture both.”

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