Dani Shapiro Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/dani-shapiro/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:37:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Dani Shapiro Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/dani-shapiro/ 32 32 38398750 Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/10/signal-fires-by-dani-shapiro/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/10/signal-fires-by-dani-shapiro/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:58:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17021 Author Dani Shapiro wastes no time plunging her pen into the marrow of human experience in her latest novel, Signal Fires. It’s a summer night in 1985 and the Wilf family, Ben, Mimi, and their teenaged children Sarah and Theo are about to go from a happy family living to four individuals reeling from unexpected […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/10/signal-fires-by-dani-shapiro/feed/ 13 17021 Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/slow-motion-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/slow-motion-a-memoir/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:10:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3639 I have always believed my mother would live forever. While I have never said goodbye to my father without the thought crossing my mind that I might never see him again, my mother has seemed indestructible, fixed in my consciousness like a gnarled and stately tree that has taken root there. If she is ripped […]

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