Far from the Tree
2012 non-fiction book by Andrew Solomon
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity is a non-fiction book by Andrew Solomon published in November 2012 in the United States[1] and two months later in the UK (under the title, Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love),[2] about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and differences.
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| Author | Andrew Solomon |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | October 1, 2013 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 962 |
| Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award (2012) for nonfiction |
| ISBN | 0-7432-3671-8 |
The writing of the book was supported by art colony residencies at Yaddo,[3] MacDowell Colony,[4] Ucross Foundation,[5] and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center;[6] at MacDowell, Solomon was the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellow and later the Stanford Calderwood fellow.[7]
In 2017 it was adapted into a documentary of the same name, directed by Rachel Dretzin. The film uncritically depicts uses of the pseudoscientific rapid prompting method as an intervention for a child with non-speaking autism.[8]
Awards and honors
- 2012 Time magazine's Best Books of the Year
- 2012 The New York Times Ten Best Books.[9]
- 2012 Lambda Literary Award, nominee.
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, winner.[10]
- 2012 Media for a Just Society Award of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency[11]
- 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, longlist.
- 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, winner.[12]
- 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner.[13]
- 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, winner.[14]
- 2013 National Multiple Sclerosis Society Books for a Better Life Award.[15]
- 2013 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction.[16]
- 2013 Green Carnation Prize, shortlist.
- 2014 Wellcome Book Prize, winner.[17][18][19]
- 2024 #67, The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st century.[20]
