Thursday, January 30, 2014

Andrew Solomon

I am loving this book. I already know I need a copy to own. Andrew Solomon is a genius!
I’m going to love my child whoever he is, and let’s see how he turns out.

Andrew Solomon’s enormous new book, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity,” is about children who are born or who grow up in ways their parents never expected. It’s a subject Mr. Solomon knows from experience. He was dyslexic as a child and struggled to learn to read. As he described in “The Noonday Demon,” which won a National Book Award in 2001, he once suffered from crippling, suicidal depressions.

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