When Dylan Moro spit into a test tube and sent it away to learn more about his DNA and his family's ethnic lineage, he never anticipated the results would tell him he was half Jewish—and kick off a search for the biological father he never knew he had. Dylan had always taken his origin story as the one and only truth, that he was born in 1983 as the firstborn son of Debra and Johnny Moro, and that he was eldest Moro brother to siblings Jerri, Julian, and Lena. Armed only with a poet's penname and the title of a long-lost book, and determined to be able to provide his newborn daughter Zuzu with an accurate family history, Dylan embarks on a two-year search for a new way to understand his story. Along the way, his relationships with his mom Debra and dad Johnny, the man who raised him as his own son, only grow deeper and stronger. This is a story about how truth is in the eye of the beholder, how history has a way of finding the light, and how there is more than one way to define family.
--Shelley Mann