The release date for the English version of 'Signal Fires' by
Dani Shapiro is Oct 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Two households. One evening. A series of lives that were eternally altered.
On Division Street, among the skies, sits an old and magnificent oak. Ben Wilf, a retired physician, and Waldo Shenkman, a ten-year-old lonely and intelligent child, are seated under the tree and pointing out stars that they find particularly interesting.Ben and Waldo had met previously, even if Waldo is unaware of this. And they absolutely will. In space and time, with a common destiny.
Division Street is a secretive place. A hasty falsehood gives rise to a mystery that will follow the Wilf family for all time. Many years later, the Shenkman family moves into the neighborhood and brings their own secrets with them. These two families become inextricably linked over the course of fifty colorful years on a street—and in a galaxy—where tales clash and stars shatter.
Signal Fires is a magnificent novel for our times, urgent and compassionate, a literary masterpiece by a gifted storyteller at the pinnacle of her craft. A brilliant reflection on kinship, recollections, and the restorative potential of unity.