Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Review
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HardCover. Pub Date :2012-11-13 Pages: 672 Language: English Publisher: Scribner Book Company From the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work. a decade in the writing. about family. In Far from the Tree. Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.Solomon s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness. dwarfism. Down syndrome. autism. schizophrenia. multiple severe disabilities. with children who are prodigies. who are conceived in rape. who become criminals. who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating. the experience of difference within families is universal. as are the triumphs of love Solomon documents...
HardCover. Pub Date :2012-11-13 Pages: 672 Language: English Publisher: Scribner Book Company From the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work. a decade in the writing. about family. In Far from the Tree. Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.Solomon s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness. dwarfism. Down syndrome. autism. schizophrenia. multiple severe disabilities. with children who are prodigies. who are conceived in rape. who become criminals. who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating. the experience of difference within families is universal. as are the triumphs of love Solomon documents...