Preview: Dani Shapiro reveals the power of stories to shape -- and undermine -- our sense of self

In her nationwide best seller Inheritance, Dani Shapiro tells how her most fundamental sense of self -- the story of her own life -- was upended. Secrets held for decades unraveled in a matter of hours, and she learned that her feeling of being an outsider in her orthodox Jewish family was rooted in fact. This extraordinary experience has given Shapiro a front-row seat on the interplay of story, identity, and self-knowledge -- yielding sometimes painful but also liberating insights that she shares in this excerpt from our forthcoming full interview. Shapiro's other memoirs include Devotion, Slow Motion, and Hourglass, and she is the host of the iHeart Media podcast Family Secrets, which recently surpassed 20 million downloads. #familysecrets #inheritance #danishapiro #lostfamilies #dna #genetics #familyhistory #memoir #dnarevelations