Book Reviews: All Books

The very existence of Solomon’s book banishes any attempt to claim allowance for ignorance or cowardice.

Solomon... writes a deeply thoughtful, balanced, and highly informed book about what it means to be different from one’s parents’ expectations.

He writes perceptively, as son and now parent, of the wondrous miracle of birth and the incipient optimism it engenders, and how parents’ hopes can be dashed when the child they bear does not match their imagined picture.

Solomon’s compassionate study of these dozen loves that are, and are not, like each other, illuminates not so much the heroism of difficult kinds of love as the adaptability of every kind.

These are not simplistic "love triumphs all" stories, but nuanced studies of challenges, heartbreak and, in a lot of cases, eventual reconciliation, sometimes even triumph.

Solomon has fashioned a tremendous and humane book that is bound to alter the way one thinks of difference, disability, love and commitment.

Now in their twenty-fifth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writing for books published in 2012.

The nonfiction winner was honored as a sweeping yet in-depth synthesizing of key social issues from deafness to homosexuality to create what feels like a whole new area of study.

Far From the Tree is the most important book I’ve ever read... If everyone read this book the world would be a better place.

"Far from the Tree" is a stellar example of the kind of sociological, reportage-based nonfiction that Americans seem to do particularly well.