{"product_id":"far-from-the-tree-young-adult-edition-how-children-and-their-parents-learn-to-accept-one-another-our-differences-unite-us-paperback","title":"Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaurie Calkhoven\u003c\/b\u003e (Adapted by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe old adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else--sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, \u003ci\u003eFar From the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other--a theme in every family's life.\u003ci\u003e The New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalls the adult edition a \"wise and beautiful\" volume that \"will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eFar and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years\u003c\/i\u003e; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has won thirty additional national awards\u003ci\u003e;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, \u003ci\u003eA Stone Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eFirst Fiction Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost\u003c\/i\u003e. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author's website at AndrewSolomon.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaurie Calkhoven is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eGeorge Washington: An American Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City. 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