Signal Fires (Large Print / Library Binding)
November 2022 Indie Next List
“This book will most likely be my favorite of the year! Dani Shapiro weaves together two families’ lives, telling their stories and secrets in nonlinear time. Between the gorgeous writing and perfect plotting, I didn’t want this to end.”
— Sue Kowalski, The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn, Glen Ellyn, IL
Gorgeous storytelling for fans of Ann Patchett's THE DUTCH HOUSE. I was utterly mesmerized by the storytelling, how secrets two neighboring families keep from each other and their intertwined lives leave imprints that impact generations for decades. This is a novel of life and death, cataclysm and stardust. Could not love it more. Highly recommend.
— Susan
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.