Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree | featured news

This is a masterpiece of non-fiction, the culmination of a decade's worth of research and writing... The first thing you should know about Andrew Solomon's new book, Far From the Tree, is that it's a monumental work. This 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.

Andrew Solomon’s “Far From the Tree” is about diversity of a harrowing sort. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism and extreme disabilities.