Far From The Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity by Andrew Solomon

Far From The Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity

Andrew Solomon

976 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
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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's syndrome, autism, schizo...

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