![]() ![]() ![]() If this sounds depressing, Solomon would sympathise with that assumption as he, too, expected when he set out with his research to find "unconditional tragedies". Far From the Tree details in 12 sections what it is like to be a parent of an exceptional child, whether they are deaf, schizophrenic or transgender. The result of this decade-and-then-some of emotionally exhausting work has already won Solomon the National Book award in the US and, this week, the Wellcome book prize in London (I was one of the judges). If I gave it up what was I going to do?" And so, he continued to work at it for another three years. ![]() "I felt as though one seldom has anything to say and I thought I had something to say about this. ![]()
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