| First edition | |
| 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 |
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.
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]