Far from the tree

ometimes your child the most familiar person of all is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? A seminal new book on how parents relate to their children: it will change the way you think about families and identity. Groundbreaking new research: 200 families interviewed, 10 years of research, from highly respected Solomon who lectures at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and is doing a PhD at Cambridge Moving emotional testimonies: uplifting stories from families, alongside Andrew Solomon's own story: he started the book as a single gay man, and finishes it married with a husband and four children