"One of the things I've learned is that when there is a secret that is being kept, there is shame," she said. She is also the host of the podcast "Family Secrets," which explores long-buried secrets and the liberation that comes from setting them free. Shapiro, 60, is as well known for her bestselling memoirs as she is for her novels. But if we actually internalize that to some degree I think it can define what it is to be a human being." And if we thought about that all the time we wouldn't be able to get out of bed. "It's something that comes up again and again in the novel," said Shapiro, who will be in St. The lesson from this - the lesson that Shapiro already knew, thinks deeply about and has woven into her new novel, "Signal Fires" - is that randomness, chance, quick decisions to turn left or right, to pause or accelerate, can change a life in an instant. "And I thought, salad dressing! I never considered a bottle of salad dressing becoming a means of devastation." "When my husband got home he told me if it had been a second earlier, that salad dressing would have hit the windshield and they would have had a terrible accident," Shapiro said in an interview from her home in Connecticut. It shattered in the street, missing their car by a fraction of an inch. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.Some years ago, Dani Shapiro's husband and son were driving home from a townball game when teenagers threw a bottle of salad dressing from the top of an embankment. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. You can also watch the full event via the embedded video, or look for it on YouTube. To listen to a lightly edited version of the Talking Volumes conversation, use the audio player above. Her new novel, “ Signal Fires,” was released Oct. 28 for a thoughtful and insightful conversation about regret, shame, seasons of life - and how she has become a beacon for secrets of all kinds.Īlso on stage for this third Talking Volumes event: musical guest Jourdan Myers.ĭani Shapiro is a bestselling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets. Shapiro was on stage at the Fitzgerald Theater on Oct.
Those same themes anchor the discussion she and MPR News host Kerri Miller had at Talking Volumes.
Shapiro skillfully follows the Wilf’s outward success and inward disintegration as she hops through time, playing with ideas of change, shame, grief and interconnectedness. This time, a secret both bonds and cripples an entire family.
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