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Far From the Tree Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” ( From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree,...

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Huberman Lab

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Huberman Lab

This book was mentioned as an example of discussing children who are very different from their parents, covering topics like savants and the Columbine shooter's mother, and introducing the concept of horizontal versus vertical identities.

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That writer Andrew Solomon says that we should never use the word reproduce. Reproduce is something that lulls parents into thinking that they're copying themselves, but that every child is produced....

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This book was mentioned as an example of discussing children who are very different from their parents, covering topics like savants and the Columbine shooter's mother, and introducing the concept of horizontal versus vertical identities.

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That writer Andrew Solomon says that we should never use the word reproduce. Reproduce is something that lulls parents into thinking that they're copying themselves, but that every child is produced. Every child is a new product and it's unpredictable what that product is going to be.

He wrote Far From the Tree, which is about children who are very different from their parents in some way.

The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Randy Cohen noted that the book had a huge impact on him, describing it as a nonfiction study of parents raising children who differ from them in many ways. Masha Gessen later praised the title as a wonderful exploration of diverse identities and the difficulty of navigating the distance that can form between parents and children. Both hosts highlighted its insightful look at identity and family dynamics, indicating strong endorsement.

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Randy Cohen said the book made a huge impact on him, describing it as a nonfiction work about parents raising children who differ from them in various dimensions.

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So my first book is by Andrew Solomon it's called Far From The Tree and it made a huge impact on me.

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Masha described Solomon's book as a wonderful exploration of diverse identities and the challenges of navigating parentchild relationships across them.

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Andrew Solomon has this wonderful book Far From the Tree which is all about a variety of the horizontal identities so identities that are not passed on from parents to children. And it's all about the difficulty of navigating that when you're trying to navigate difficulty of navigating that distance that forms between parents and children.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

The hosts noted they had watched the documentary adaptation of the book and described it as moving and unexpectedly intense, emphasizing how the work offers a new perspective on families with children who differ from their parents.

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I talked about it a little bit on armchair if anyone caught this, but he wrote the book far from the tree about children who are much different than their parents and parenting a kid who's different t...

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The hosts noted they had watched the documentary adaptation of the book and described it as moving and unexpectedly intense, emphasizing how the work offers a new perspective on families with children who differ from their parents.

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I talked about it a little bit on armchair if anyone caught this, but he wrote the book far from the tree about children who are much different than their parents and parenting a kid who's different than you.

I watched Far From The Tree last night, and that's based on a book of yours, and you're in it.

It was so moving.

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