Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges in his new book. From families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, and schizophrenia, to children who are prodigies or transgender—Solomon illuminates the universal experiences of difference and the triumph of love.