Far From The Tree

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<p><b>**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**</b> <b></b> <b>A<i>NEW YORK TIMES</i>BESTSELLER</b></p><p>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?</p><p>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<i>Far from the Tree</i>celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us.</p><p><b>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. Winner of the Green Carnation Prize.</b></p>

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Andrew Solomon is a writer and activist working on politics, culture and psychology. He writes regularly for the<i>New Yorker</i>,<i>Newsweek</i>, and the<i>Guardian</i>. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale Universitys Department of Psychiatry.<i>The Noonday Demon</i>won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His highly-acclaimed study of family,<i>Far from the Tree</i>won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction, the Lukas Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, among others. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London.

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