My editor described the book as an answer to grief, and that made me so happy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Then her husband was diagnosed with cancer after he recovered and as the world went into lockdown in 2020, Shapiro traveled back to 2010, returning to this story and finding the key to telling it was in the chronology. Stuck, she put it aside and wrote memoirs instead, including the best-selling “The Inheritance,” which tells of how she discovered her late but beloved Dad was not her biological father. The author, who recently spoke by video, started the book more than a decade ago. 2, is now adapting the book into a TV series. Shapiro, who will be appearing at Diesel Books with Jamie Lee Curtis on Nov. There’s no past, present or future - these moments all exist in a poignant present as time loops and swirls, disconnecting and bringing people back together. This time Ben, the aging father of once-wayward teens Theo and Sarah, reconnects with Waldo, the brilliant but lonely son of his neighbor Shenkman.ĭani Shapiro’s sixth novel, her first in 15 years dances between the years: 1970, 1985, 1999, 20. Then, just a few pages later, we are again at the site of the tragedy but it’s now a touching scene taking place a quarter-century later. “Signal Fires” opens with a small, familiar moment of teenage recklessness, but one that takes a girl’s life and casts a long and looming shadow.
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