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Name: Far From the Tree

Author: Andrew Solomon
Year: 2012
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Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Psychology, Award winners, Science

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ISBN:
9780743236713
0743236718
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2013.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 2012.
Winner of the Green Carnation Prize in 2013.
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2014.
Winner of the NAIBA Book of the Year award for Nonfiction in 2013.
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2013.

The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of people affected by physical, developmental or cultural factors that divide families. 150,000 first printing.
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