WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes 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 & 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 & compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction & eleven other national awards Winner of the Green Carnation Prize