Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

A Scribner Classics edition of Andrew Solomon's bestselling masterpiece, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Dayton Peace Prize, and one of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2012--a brave, beautiful book that will expand your humanity (People).

Andrew Solomon's startling proposition in Far From the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition--that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or 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, and Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent should parents accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on ten years of research and interviews with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges.

Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far From the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other--a theme in every family's life. The New York Times calls it a wise and beautiful volume, that will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place.

Andrew Solomon is a Columbia University professor of psychology, the president of the PEN American Center, and a regular writer to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Edge of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years; Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and went on to win thirty more national honors; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He's also the author of A Stone Boat, a Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist, and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists at a Time of Glasnost. Around 10 million people have watched his TED presentations. He is a dual national who lives in both New York and London. AndrewSolomon.com is the author's website for more information.

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ISBN 13	9780743236713
ISBN 10	0743236718
Title	Far from the Tree
Author	Andrew Solomon
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2012-11-13
Number of pages	976
Prizes	Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2012, Winner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2013, Winner of Books for a Better Life (Psychology) 2012, Winner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2013, Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013
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