Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity

Author(s): Andrew Solomon

Personal Development

Sometimes 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.


Product Information

Winner of Green Carnation Prize 2013. Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2013. Samuel Johnson Prize 2013.

 

General Fields

  • : 9780099460992
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : 1.128
  • : December 2013
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

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  • : Paperback
  • : Andrew Solomon