The best-selling author will publish Signal Fires in fall 2022.
Through her particular blend of breathtaking readability and introspection, she has collected legions of devout readers.
Her 2019 memoirInheritancebecame an instantNew York Timesbest-seller and has moved nearly 200,000 copies to date.
Dani Shapiro.Courtesy Dani Shapiro
(It was also the catalyst for her podcastFamily Secrets, which boasts more than 20 million downloads.)
“If you’re going to upset chronology, you should really upset chronology.
New ideas and new work came, of course.
Then in the early days of quarantine, aMarie Kondo-esqueurge to purge hit and she discovered the discarded manuscript.
As Shapiro read through those decade-old pages, the words, as they say, started flowing.
“Something possessed me,” she says.
“It was like a lightning bolt, and I knew what to do.
It’s worth prefacing thatSignal Firesisn’ta pandemic novel, at least in that sense.
“And these 18 months have either completely alienated us or completely tenderized us.”
Something small, sweet, honest, true.
It mattered before, it matters now.”
