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Reviews: All Books


Jan 2013

Review of: Published in: NRC Handelsblad

Far from the Tree gaat eerder over het overwinnen van ons eigen ongemak met 'anders zijn'. (Far from the Tree is more about overcoming our own discomfort with those who are "different.")

Jan 2013

Review of: Published in: The Guardian

The book starts out as a study of parents raising "difficult" children, and ends up as an affirmation of what it is to be human.

Jan 2013

Review of: Published in: Los Angeles Review of Books

His book is massive in every way, from its hefty 962 pages, to the weighty sadness of its stories, and, ultimately, to its ambition and generosity.

Dec 2012

Review of: Published in: Reuters News Service

In his latest book Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon turns the conventional wisdom that children are composites of their parents on its head, but says that is not a bad thing.

Dec 2012

Published in: The Economist

Far from the Tree is brought to life by its intimate domestic voices, many of them people who ended up falling in love with children they never knew they wanted.

Dec 2012

Review of: Published in: Winnipeg Free Press

What distinguishes this book... is its patient attention to both the academic literature and the daily experiences of appealing case studies.

Dec 2012

Review of: Published in: Parents

His beautifully written and compassionate words will make you think differently about yourself and others. This is one of those rare books that makes readers want to be better people.

Dec 2012

Review of: Published in: Star Tribune

This is a raucous, joyful tribute that exalts all parents who love their alien offspring with molten force

Nov 2012

Review of: Published in: San Francisco Chronicle

A book of extraordinary ambition.... Solomon's true talent is a geographic one: He maps the strange terrain of the human struggle that is parenting.

Nov 2012

Review of: Published in: People

Solomon has written a brave, beautiful book that will expand your humanity.