When the Shenkmans arrive-a young couple expecting a baby boy-it is as if the accident never happened. 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.

Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Times, TIME, Vanity Fair, LitHub, BookPage, Library Journal, The Millions ONE OF MOST EAGERLY ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR: L.A. Each bookstore has bookplates signed by Dani available with purchase of a copy of Signal Fires. Order from this page to receive a signed bookplate! Supplies are limited. This event will be broadcast via Zoom, and is co-sponsored by our independent bookstore partners: B ards Alley, Belmont Books, Brazos Bookstore, Content Bookstore, FoxTale Book Shoppe, Newtown Bookshop, Next Chapter Booksellers, Norwich Bookstore, Odyssey Bookshop, Riverstone Bookstore, Third Place Books, and Towne Center Books.

We are thrilled to invite you to join Dani Shapiro and Katie Couric as they discuss Dani’s writing, career, and brilliant new novel at this special virtual event. Hailed as a “haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer), Signal Fires is a riveting, deeply felt novel that explores the ties that bind families together-and the secrets that can break them apart. In her first work of fiction in fifteen years, bestselling author Dani Shapiro returns to the form that launched her career. Join us on October 21 at 3pm PT / 6 pm ET for a special virtual event featuring Dani Shapiro in conversation with Katie Couric, discussing Dani’s new novel, Signal Fires. “I don’t know of anyone who writes about family with the same generous understanding and gem-cut sentences as Dani Shapiro.' -Gary Shteyngart

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