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It's an astonishingly smart and provocative book that is both challenging and compassionate and reading it creates a sort of community of its own.
May 2013
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May 2013
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Courage, powerlessness, despair, anger and unconditional love: it's all there and usually simultaneously.
May 2013
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A ten-year labour of empathy, generosity and love... a triumphant celebration of the power of parental love.
Apr 2013
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The very existence of Solomon’s book banishes any attempt to claim allowance for ignorance or cowardice.
Apr 2013
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Solomon... writes a deeply thoughtful, balanced, and highly informed book about what it means to be different from one’s parents’ expectations.
Mar 2013
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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.
Mar 2013
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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.
Mar 2013
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Numa era em que a tecnologia reforça a ilusão da perfeição adquirida, o livro é uma crônica do afeto que move a aceitação incondicional. (In an era in which technology enhances the illusion that perfection can be acquired, the book is a chronicle of affection that moves towards unconditional acceptance.)
Mar 2013
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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.
Mar 2013
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Solomon has fashioned a tremendous and humane book that is bound to alter the way one thinks of difference, disability, love and commitment.
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