TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solomon, Andrew
TI  - Far from the tree : a dozen kinds of love
SN  - 0099460998
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS
KW  - PARENTING
KW  - FAMILY
N1  - Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012
N2  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2014. 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 what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. It is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. It is the winner of the Green Carnation Prize"
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