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By Allison Har-zvi
| Monday, March 09, 2015 - Off the Shelf
My mother has a saying about being a parent: whatever you are,
your kid will be the opposite. And it’s true. Every one of us feels
profoundly different from our parents at some point, and every parent has
wondered how their child could be so different from them. Andrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree: Parents,
Children, and the Search for Identity is about just that, but
taken to a whole new level. Far from the Tree examines some of the most
drastic cases of children who, for various reasons, turned out to be
completely unlike their parents’ expectations. Solomon interviewed hundreds
of families for this book, all with children who have a condition or identity
that their parents do not share. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and the
result is this enormous, astonishing work.
Far from the Tree will refute
assumptions you never realized you made. You will learn about the parallels
between the experience of being deaf and the experience of being gay, between
the experience of being a prodigy and of being disabled, and how these
experiences impact a parent. You will meet families of all sorts. You will
weep for rape victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and their children, and
rejoice as a transgender si... READ
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