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Staff Picks Book Discussion

2024-03-18 14:00:00 2024-03-18 15:00:00 America/Phoenix Staff Picks Book Discussion Mustang Library - Program Room

Monday, March 18
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-03-18 14:00:00 2024-03-18 15:00:00 America/Phoenix Staff Picks Book Discussion Mustang Library - Program Room

Mustang Library

Program Room

Join us each month for a lively conversation centered on titles selected by staff within a variety of genres.

In this group we will discuss Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro.

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. She woke up one morning and her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her.

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. 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. 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.

Mustang Library

Phone: 480-312-7323

Opening hours
We're closed Friday July 04 due to Independence Day
Mon, Jun 30 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Jul 02 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 Closed
(Independence Day)
Sat, Jul 05 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 06 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Address
10101 North 90th Street
Scottsdale
, AZ 85258
Tel: 480-312-7323

About the library

Opened June 13, 1987

31,850 square feet

35 public-use computers

Drive-up window service

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