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"
This remarkable new book ...
reminds us that nothing is more powerful in a child's development than the love of a parent."
- Bill Clinton, former president of the United States
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Brave and ambitious.
Solomon tells us that we have more in common with each other than we would ever have imagined."
- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point
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Far-reaching, original, fascinating.
Perhaps the greatest gift of this monumental book ... is that it constantly makes one think."
- Phillip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
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Astonishingly humane.
This is one of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent times."
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
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A mind-opening experience.
An intellectual history that lays the foundation for a ... Psychological Bill of Rights."
- Eric Kandel, author of The Age of Insight and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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A landmark, revolutionary book...
in a compulsively readable style that makes the book as entertaining as it is illuminating."
- Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer-prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Informative and moving.
[The book] raises profund issues regarding the nature of love, the value of human life, and the future of humanity."
- Kirkus, starred review
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[Solomon] journeys across national, ethnic, and religious lines--and along the way he learns about what makes us human."
- Newsweek

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Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts.

photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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