Far From the Tree
About this book
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, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, and 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.
Subjects
- 71.21 family, nuclear family (sociology)
- 80.25 remedial education: general
- 80.82 education in families
- anisfield-wolf book award winner
- autism
- books for a better life award winner
- child, exceptional--psychology
- children with disabilities
- children with disabilities--psychology
- children with disabilities--united states--psychology
- crime
- dayton literary peace prize winner
- deafness
- disability
- disabled children--psychology
- down syndrome
- dwarfism
- exceptional children
- exceptional children--psychology
- exceptional children--united states--psychology
- families
- family and relationships
- homosexuality
- hv888.5 .s65 2012
- identity
- identity (psychology)
- identity (psychology)--united states
- j. anthony lukas book prize winner
- national book critics circle award winner
- national council on crime and delinquency award winner
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2012-12-02
- parent and child
- parent and child--psychological aspects
- parent and child--united states--psychological aspects
- parent-child relations
- parent-child-relationships
- parents of children with disabilities
- parents of children with disabilities--united states
- parents of exceptional children
- parents of exceptional children--united states
- parents--psychology
- prodigies
- psychological aspects
- psychology
- rape
- scizophrenia
- social identification
- transgender
- wellcome book prize winner