Slow Motion

<p><strong>Chilling. . . . There is a gritty honesty to her cautionary confession that will alert others to listen for and respond to wake-up calls of their own. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Slow Motion</em> is the critically-lauded bestselling memoir from acclaimed novelist Dani Shapiro (<em>Black & White Family History</em>) -- a riveting and breathtaking look (<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>) free of self-pity or regret at a life that was rescued by an unspeakable tragedy.</strong></p><p>At twenty-three Dani Shapiro was in the midst of a major rebellion against her religious upbringing. She had dropped out of college was halfheartedly acting in television commercials and was carrying on with an older married man when her life was changed in an instant by a phone call. Her parents had been in a devastating car accident. Neither was expected to survive. In her first memoir Shapiro offers this powerful true story of a life turned around--not by miracles or happy endings but by unexpected personal catastrophe.</p>