NEW YORK -- In his latest book "Far From the Tree," National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon turns the conventional wisdom that children are composites of their parents on its head, but says that is not a bad thing.
In the 700-page
tome that explores the lives of families with children with conditions
ranging from autism to deafness, Solomon says having a child is an act
of production rather than reproduction that "abruptly catapults us into a
permanent relationship with a stranger."
Though the book
focuses on how families cope with more extreme forms of difference,
Solomon, 49, believes that encountering unexpected traits in one's child
is a universal part of parenthood.
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