Far From the Tree | Reviewed Book | Andrew Solomon

Mar 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Lambda Literary Foundation

Published in: Lambda Literary Foundation

Far from the Tree Nominated for 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award

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

Mar 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Deborah Cohen

Published in: Literary Review

The Lives of Others

A monumental and generous-hearted book, balanced between the universal and the particular, and gorgeously observed.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Barbara Hoffert

Published in: Critical Mass

Far from the Tree Wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

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.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Jackie Bailey

Published in: Farm Lane Books Blog

Farm Lane Books on “Far from the Tree”

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.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Jo Case

Published in: The Australian

Parents of Challenging Children Celebrate Their Difference

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

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Jane Shilling

Published in: Telegraph

Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon

A moving study of parental love in the face of adversity.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Sam Leith

Published in: The Spectator

Family Differences

Nobody could read this extraordinary, moving book and not feel enlightened, but above all enlarged by it.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: David Aaronovitch

Published in: Times

Book of the Week: Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Over a decade and in hundreds of interviews, Solomon looks at how the love of parents for their children and the need of the child for the parent, are tested, bent, pulled and torn by some of the extraordinary ways we have of being human.

Feb 2013

Review Of: Far From the Tree By: Rosamund Irwin

Published in: Evening Standard

What to Do When Your Kids Aren’t Like You

This is a remarkable work: moving but never bathetic, challenging in parts but always worth the effort. I’d call it extraordinary — if only Solomon would let me.

Feb 2013