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Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro's most recent books include the novels Black & White and Family History and the bestselling memoir Slow Motion. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Elle, Vogue, Ploughshares, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. She lives... show more

Dani Shapiro's most recent books include the novels Black & White and Family History and the bestselling memoir Slow Motion. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Elle, Vogue, Ploughshares, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. She lives with her husband and son in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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Dani Shapiro's Books
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life - Dani Shapiro Family History - Dani Shapiro Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage - Dani Shapiro Black & White - Dani Shapiro Devotion: A Memoir - Dani Shapiro Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Dani Shapiro Slow Motion (Harvest Book) - Dani Shapiro Picturing the Wreck - Dani Shapiro Ploughshares Fall 2012 Guest-Edited by Patricia Hampl - Charles Baxter, Phillip Lopate, Dani Shapiro, Mary Gordon, Lynn Freed, Barry Gifford, Thomas Mallon, Mark Slouka, Eileen Pollack, Patricia Hampl Slow Motion: A True Story - Dani Shapiro Slow Motion: A True Story - Dani Shapiro Fugitive Blue - Dani Shapiro Playing with Fire - Dani Shapiro Supernova (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading) - Dani Shapiro, Benjamin Samuel
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Dani Shapiro
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage - Dani Shapiro
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life - Dani Shapiro
Le foto di mia madre - Dani Shapiro, Elisabetta De Medio
Family History - Dani Shapiro
Slow Motion: A True Story - Dani Shapiro
Fugitive Blue - Dani Shapiro
Devotion: A Memoir - Dani Shapiro
Slow Motion (Harvest Book) - Dani Shapiro
Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy - Dani Shapiro
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Memories From Books on Booklikes
Memories From Books on Booklikes rated it 8 years ago
url Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
The words that come to mind reading Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro are nonlinear, personal, intimate, quiet, and reflective. This slim book is a reflection and commentary on marriage. This is not a memoir with a linear timeline or a plot; it is more like picking through a photo al...
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Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 8 years ago
text A brief, honest introspective look at the author's life.
I received an uncorrected bound proof and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It requires a slow and thoughtful reading as the author expertly inserts her random thoughts into your stream of consciousness as she looks back and examines her own life, providing examples of the positive and the negative, th...
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sarah
sarah rated it 12 years ago
text Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion
I liked this book, it was a quick and exciting read. I agree with other reviewers that it had many problems: first, by leaving out some important personal history (i.e. her first marriage), I think we get the wrong idea about who the author is in this book. Secondly, it is pretty much the story of h...
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sad strumpet jenny
sad strumpet jenny rated it 13 years ago
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I might have liked this more because I heard the author read a few excerpts on NPR. By the end I was almost burnt out on reading about her. But it was an absorbing, affecting read.
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That's What She Read
That's What She Read rated it 14 years ago
text Devotion: A Memoir
I've mentioned this before - and the more I experience the life of a book reviewer/blogger, the more I firmly believe this to be true - books have a way of coming across our path when they are most needed, when they will speak to us the most. Over the past two-plus years, as I have finally started p...
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