Ep. 212: Happier Podcast Book Club: We Talk About Family Secrets in Dani Shapiro’s Memoir “Inheritance.”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week is a milestone episode for us. It’s our first Happier Podcast Book Club episode. We talk to Dani Shapiro about her memoir: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. Want to discuss Dani Shapiro's book with other Happier podcast listeners or suggest a book? Join the Happier Podcast Book Club conversation on Goodreads. Remember: Whenever it is and wherever you are, there’s always a book is waiting for you. Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Get tickets for Gretchen's book tour and Happier podcast live events athttp://gretchenrubin.com/events Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/212 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be Happier! This week is a
0:06.4	milestone episode for us. It is our very first Happier podcast book club episode
0:12.9	and we are so excited.
0:17.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature. I'm in New
0:31.0	York City and with me is my sister and fellow book lover Elizabeth Kraft. That's me, Elizabeth Kraft,
0:37.0	a TV writer, a producer, living in Los Angeles and Gretchen. I cannot believe that this is the first time
0:43.2	I've been in a book club. How is that possible? I don't know. If you'd asked me, I would have said,
0:49.8	oh, I've been in a million book clubs, but then I thought about it and I thought, oh my gosh, I have
0:53.6	never been in a book club. I mean, you're in a Majon club and you're not in a book club. I know.
0:59.4	So now you are though. We've tackled. Now you are. Yes, thank goodness. But before we talk about our
1:04.4	big book of the episode, which we're so excited to launch into, I do want to talk about my own book
1:08.9	and say thank you to everyone for all the interest and enthusiasm in Outer Order Intercom. It's
1:15.2	so exciting. It's so fun for me. I so appreciate the response that I've gotten from everyone. So thank
1:21.4	you so much. I'm on the road still for my Outer Order Intercom book tour and we are going to do
1:27.0	happier podcast live events. You can get all the information at GretchenRubin.com slash events.
1:34.3	Coming up, we're going to talk a lot more about the live events and what to expect and where we're
1:38.5	going and all that. But in the meantime, you can mark your calendar and get the basics by going to
1:43.7	GretchenRubin.com slash events. I cannot wait, Gretchen. And now it's time for the book club. So this
1:50.8	choice, Elizabeth, was so easy for us when we were like, we're going to do a happier podcast book club.
1:56.0	We knew that we wanted to do this book and everyone has been loving this book. It has been a
2:02.3	huge bestseller. It's just making a huge splash because it's such a terrific book.
2:06.4	The author is Danny Shapiro. Danny Shapiro is the best-selling author of four memoirs, all of which I've
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