BLACK & WHITE By Dani Shapiro Knopf. 256 pp. $24 Dani Shapiro, the author of several novels, including "Family History," and the memoir "Slow Motion," has chosen a risky subject for her latest book, one that even a first-class writer could botch in a hundred different ways. Whether she can engage...

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