Sometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different
from you.
The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But wh
at happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families,
covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizoph
renia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime
and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courage
ous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but Far from the Tree celebrat
es repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experi
ence of difference is what unites us.
