Benway Robin "Far from the Tree" PDF

Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who
not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find
profound meaning in doing so.


Solomon’s
startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He
writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome,
autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who
are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are
transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially
isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal. In
Solomon’s telling, these stories are everyone’s stories