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Far From the Tree (Young Adult Edition): How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another…Our Differences Unite Us

Far From the Tree (Young Adult Edition): How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another…Our Differences Unite Us

by Andrew Solomon

From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far From the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.

The old adage says that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else—sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world?

In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, and more…


Ages: Teen
ISBN: 9781481440905
Price: $18.99
Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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