Far from the apple tree. Solomon E.

to be special, not like everyone else, this is the basis of human nature; And this dissimilarity is what unites us. Andrew Solomon proceeded from this premise, starting to collect materials for the book. So it turned out to be a story about parents who cope with deafness, dwarf, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia and multiple mental and physical disabilities of their children; With children, children conceived as a result of violence, minor criminals and transgender people. Any of these features can separate the child and his family from the world; Meanwhile, all these families are united by experience gained when its members tried to find new boundaries of normal. And in each chapter, the author meticulously document episodes when love prevailed over prejudices.

Over 10 years, Andrew Solomon held an interview with more than three hundred complex families; And under this cover, the eloquent answer of ordinary people to the question: how to accept the dear person, if he is not like everyone else?

Andrew Solomon - a professor of clinical psychology at the Medical Center at the Columbia University, the lecturer of Yale's University, lecturer Ted , the author of articles for the New York Times and New Yorker, in the past-the head of the American Pen center.