Signal Fires Signal Fires

Signal Fires

A novel

    • 4.2 • 218 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings)

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.

A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year


An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny.

Division Street is full of secrets. An impulsive lie begets a secret—one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own.. Spanning fifty kaleidoscopic years, on a street—and in a galaxy—where stars collapse and stories collide, these two families become bound in ways they never could have imagined.

Urgent and compassionate, Signal Fires is a magical story for our times, a literary tour de force by a masterful storyteller at the height of her powers. A luminous meditation on family, memory, and the healing power of interconnectedness.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
October 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.9
MB

Customer Reviews

robomms ,

Beautiful,peaceful work

I am hardly a book critic but just someone who likes to read. This was one of the most beautiful and poignant books I have ever read. The characters were not depressing to me but human. They were confronted with tragedy and sadness but prevailed in a very uplifting way.

The universe is all connected,we are all connected.

Thank you Dani Shapiro

AsYouWish80 ,

seemed to go go nowhere

the timeline was confusing and the characters depressing. Ending fell flat.

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