Andrew Solomon’s “Far From the
Tree” may have the most intriguing table of contents ever.
“Deaf,” “Dwarfs,” “Down Syndrome,” “Autism,”
“Schizophrenia,” “Prodigies” and “Transgender” are some of
the blunt chapter titles.
Solomon spent more than 10 years interviewing parents ofchildren who were different from them in a significant respect.
He investigates questions such as how hearing parents can raise
a deaf child to be fluent in both sign language and written
English and whether it’s right to give hormone blockers to a
pre-teen who wants a sex change.
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