Reluctantly, Shapiro spat into a vial which, along with her spouse's, went off for analysis. Her mother died shortly after, and she filed away the episode until 2016, when Shapiro’s husband, filmmaker Michael Maren, brought home DNA kits that would provide plenty of information about ancestors, potential health issues and so forth. TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE BUT NOT ONLINE.''Oh, you don’t want to know,’ my mother replied. Every Monday on CBS This Morning, the final “Before We Go” segment features her solutions and tips for living a happier, healthier, more productive life. On her top-ranking, award-winning podcast “ Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” she discusses happiness and good habits with her sister Elizabeth Craft. ( The Happiness Projectspent two years on the bestseller list.) She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience. Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.

It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.mystery of her own lineage as she questions the notion of lineage itself: What makes a father a father? And how are we shaped by our family lore? This beautifully crafted book is full of wisdom and heart, showing that what we don’t know about our parents may not be as important as what we do.

It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. Inheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. 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?

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