Richard Kramer's Reviews > Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

I want to keep this short. For one thing, it's a long book, and you should spend your precious reading time on the book and not on my
review of it. It's a huge book, and a great one, a book of unbearable sadness that provides a tool for how to deal with it. Mr.
Solomon had to write this book, and I felt that on every page, with every tale, with every family he met, a world of people who discovered through their extraordinary children (autistic, gifted, transgender, criminal) their own extraordinary capacity for resiliency and deep, abiding love. I can think of many books I've loved, or admired; many books I wished I could have written myself. But I can think of only a few that have changed my life, and made me see things differently. FAR FROM THE TREE is one of them.