Far From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love
**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three...
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**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. Winner of the Green Carnation Prize.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781446433928 (1446433927)
Publish date: February 7th 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Book Club,
Science,
Adult,
Parenting,
Family,
Education,
Sociology,
Psychology
Andrew Solomon is gay, married to his husband, and has children.This book is on his research on parents and children identity.But more importantly, it is about love. Here is the Ted talk Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what. First chapter son How being a gay son shaped Andrew as a person and wh...
A massive dense deep finely honed study filled with rich erudite prose countered by a great amount of compassion and intellect.Far from the Tree deals with the search for identity for parents, children and sometimes both at the same time. Essentially there are two types of identities: Vertical your ...
Here's a trailer for the book:http://www.upworthy.com/news-flash-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-normal-family?c=ufb1What a great book. Solomon looks at families, which usually have vertical identities (shared family traits), where children have horizontal identities (characteristics they share with peop...
Very interesting, but a bit long and often repetitive. Each chapter feels as though it could have become its own book (which would be an interesting series in its own right). The author seems very respectful of each family and individual he meets, and there are some wonderful, and tragic, stories to...
I had resisted getting this book, because the subject matter sounded too...prurient, I guess. After reading someone else's review, I was intrigued, though, and decided to give it a try. I'm so glad I did! Though the subject(s) of the book are delicate, Solomon treats them with such delicacy and com...
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