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'Signal Fires' is a Novel Stretching Across Time, Memory and Family Secrets | Book of the Day

Author Dani Shapiro spent 15 years working on Signal Fires, a novel about how a single accident changes the course of one family's life.

In this episode, she tells NPR's Scott Simon how her own trajectory to completing the book upended what she thought she knew about herself and her upbringing.

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