**Dani Shapiro** is the author of the instant New York Times best selling memoir, Inheritance, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still ...

A few years ago, Dani Shapiro began suffering from what she calls an “is-this-all-there-is despondency,” a spiritual malaise she chronicles in her new memoir, Devotion (HarperCollins; 245 pages).

Dani Shapiro was used to hearing it: ... In “Devotion” and “Slow Motion” Shapiro divulged the tumult of her early adult years — her relationship with the stepfather of a close college ...