Slow Motion
Book description
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exqui-sitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney--her best friend's…
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2 authors picked Slow Motion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a luminously honest, unflinching, and brave memoir by the marvelous Dani Shapiro, whose most recent memoir, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, caused a sensation when it was published in 2019.
When Slow Motion begins, Dani is in her early 20s, adrift, rebelling against her Jewish heritage, dabbling in acting and modeling, involved in a dead-end affair with a married man.
Then one night, a phone call changes everything- her parents have been in a dreadful car accident. Her father dies a few weeks later, and her mother requires months of intensive rehab.
Dani's tragic…
From Priscilla's list on loving and losing a complicated father.
Shapiro’s first memoir tells the story of the car accident that killed her father and seriously injured her mother, the event that “divides [her] life into before and after.”
At the time of the accident, Shapiro is adrift, a college dropout, involved in a toxic relationship with an older man. The accident, and its aftermath, forces her to wake up from her extended adolescence and face adulthood head on, to ultimately decide the kind of person she wants to be.
From Daisy's list on the pain of growing up.
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