Signal Fires -- Dani Shapiro, Hardcover

A "gripping" new novel (PEOPLE) from the best-selling author of Inheritance On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes.

A haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets." --Meg Wolitzer

ONE OF MOST EAGERLY ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR: LitHub, BookPage, Library Journal, The Millions

Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.

On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive--a young couple expecting a baby boy--it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans' brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife's decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen.

In Dani Shapiro's first work of fiction in fifteen years, she returns to the form that launched her career, with a riveting, deeply felt novel that examines the ties that bind families together--and the secrets that can break them apart. Signal Fires is a work of haunting beauty by a masterly storyteller.

Author: Dani Shapiro
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593534724

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 4
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 93
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2022
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 35