Lejos del árbol

Far from the tree is an essential book about the relationships between parents and children and their differences. For ten years, Andrew Solomon, winner of the National Book Award for The Demon of Depression, has conducted a study with more than three hundred families who have learned to live with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism , schizophrenia, disability, child prodigies, delinquent children, transsexuals or children who are the result of rape. Solomon maintains that normality does not exist, that we are all "imperfect and strange" and that it is the difference that unites us. He affirms that we all have disabilities or traumas to a greater or lesser degree, and defends disability not as a disease that can be cured but as an identity trait. His extraordinary investigative work manages to dismantle this deep-rooted social prejudice, a stigma that he has caused and continues to cause a lot of damage.