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Far from the Tree

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Publisher
  
Scribner, New York

Pages
  
962

Originally published
  
1 November 2012

Page count
  
962

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
November 2012

ISBN
  
0-743-23671-8

Author
  
Andrew Solomon

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Awards
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Similar
  
Andrew Solomon books, Special education books, Non-fiction books

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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 and two months later in the UK (under the title, Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love), about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and differences.

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The writing of the book was supported by residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center; at MacDowell, Solomon was the DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow and later the Stanford Calderwood fellow.

Andrew solomon discusses far from the tree


Awards and honors

  • 2012 Time magazine's Best Books of the Year
  • 2012 The New York Times Ten Best Books.
  • 2012 Lambda Literary Award, nominee.
  • 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, winner.
  • 2012 Media for a Just Society Award of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
  • 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, longlist.
  • 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, winner.
  • 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner.
  • 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, winner.
  • 2013 National Multiple Sclerosis Society Books for a Better Life Award.
  • 2013 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction.
  • 2013 Green Carnation Prize, shortlist.
  • 2014 Wellcome Book Prize, winner.
  • References

    Far from the Tree Wikipedia