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“It’s a book everyone should read and there’s no one who wouldn’t be a more imaginative and understanding parent—or human being—for having done so.” (Julie Myerson
The New York Times Book Review )
“Solomon is a storyteller of great intimacy and ease…He approaches each family’s story thoughtfully, respectfully…Bringing together their voices, Solomon creates something of enduring warmth and beauty: a quilt, a choir.” (Kate Tuttle
The Boston Globe )
“Solomon’s first chapter, entitled ‘Son,’ is as masterly a piece of writing as I’ve come across all year. It combines his own story with a taut and elegant précis of this book’s arguments. It is required reading…This is a book that shoots arrow after arrow into your heart.” (Dwight Garner
The New York Times )
“A brave, beautiful book that will expand your humanity.” (Anne Leslie
PEOPLE )
“[
Far from the Tree] is a masterpiece of non-fiction, the culmination of a decade’s worth of research and writing, and it should be required reading for psychologists, teachers, and above all, parents…A bold and unambiguous call to redefine how we view difference…A stunning work of scholarship and compassion.” (Carmela Ciuraru
USA Today )
“Deeply moving…” (Lisa Zeidner
The Washington Post )
“A book of extraordinary ambition…Part journalist, part psychology researcher, part sympathetic listener, Solomon’s true talent is a geographic one: he maps the strange terrain of the human struggle that is parenting.” (Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The San Francisco Cronicle )
“Monumental…Solomon has an extraordinary gift for finding his way into the relatively hermetic communities that form around conditions…and gaining the confidence of the natives.” (Lev Grossman
TIME )
“Masterfully written and brilliantly researched…
Far from the Tree stands apart from the countless memoirs and manuals about special needs parenting published in the last couple of decades.” (Tina Calabro
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )
“A careful, subtle, and surprising book.” (Nathan Heller
The New Yorker )
Über den Autor
Andrew Solomon is the author of the bestselling
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity and
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of fourteen national awards, including the 2001 National Book Award. A
New York Times bestseller, it is published in twenty-two languages. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Advisor on LGBT affairs to the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.
