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Signal Fires
A Literary Fiction Novel by Dani Shapiro
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Multi-Generational,
- Magical Realism
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family dramas shaped by decades of hidden secrets
- Stories where cosmic wonder meets neighborhood life under starlit skies
- Intergenerational connections that ripple across time and memory
From Little Stack
In the neighborhood of Division Street, secrets abound in this story set across 50 years and involving a retired doctor and a boy who is drawn to the stars. Author Dani Shapiro is no stranger to secrets, as her memoir Inheritance chronicles her experience learning through a DNA test that her biological father wasn’t the man who raised her.
Her thoughtful sensitivity to secrets shines in this novel, which puts a cosmic twist on the theme of family secrets. Powerful and moving, this novel was named a Time Best Book of the Year in 2022.
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: 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.
Urgent and compassionate, Signal Fires is 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.
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