Reviews: All Books

A Stone Boat is a small, elegant novel that asks a big, thorny question: how do we love unconditionally, but not blindly? It’s a question worthy of any genre, not to mention a career.

Far from the Tree... is a marvel of precision, lucidity and, despite its 962 pages, concision.

It is hard to imagine a writer other than Solomon who could be more understanding and accepting of the families he interviews and writes about.

In Far From the Tree Solomon showed that disability and difference can be viewed in a positive light. In The Noonday Demon he shows how depression can also be viewed in the same way.

There are some books you read that shake up your preconceptions and challenge you to be better. That's Far from the Tree.

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.

Courage, powerlessness, despair, anger and unconditional love: it's all there and usually simultaneously.

A ten-year labour of empathy, generosity and love... a triumphant celebration of the power of parental love.

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.