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A review by mizliz85716
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
5.0
I bought this book a few years ago but couldn't get through the first chapter. Recently, possessing more resolve, I pressed on and read all of it.
As someone with a "horizontal identity", I was looking for myself in this book. What I found instead was a rich exploration of many identities I didn't know much about, including deafness, dwarfism, Down Syndrome, autism, and physical disability.
I suspect the author and I have some political differences (the chapter on trans identity was strange), but I am impressed by the lengths he went to to research these identities and explore the dilemmas, challenges and rewards faced by parents of children who are profoundly different from them, and by children who are born to parents who struggle to understand.
I am not a parent, but I suspect any parent would benefit from reading this book. I think EVERYONE would benefit.
As someone with a "horizontal identity", I was looking for myself in this book. What I found instead was a rich exploration of many identities I didn't know much about, including deafness, dwarfism, Down Syndrome, autism, and physical disability.
I suspect the author and I have some political differences (the chapter on trans identity was strange), but I am impressed by the lengths he went to to research these identities and explore the dilemmas, challenges and rewards faced by parents of children who are profoundly different from them, and by children who are born to parents who struggle to understand.
I am not a parent, but I suspect any parent would benefit from reading this book. I think EVERYONE would benefit.