Andrew Solomon: Far From the Tree
Tuesday 17 September, 2013
6:30pm, $0/Rsvp
New America
199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
What can we learn from parents bringing up children who, whether deaf, autistic, transgender, or disabled, whether criminals or prodigies, are very different from the parents themselves? In his book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon draws on over a decade of reporting on such families and raises penetrating questions about the extent to which parents should accept children as they are, and about what we can all learn from families coping with profound difference.
Join Andrew Solomon for a conversation about his extraordinary new book.
Copies of Far From the Tree will be available for purchase.
Featuring…
ANDREW SOLOMON
Author, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
LIZA MUNDY
Director, Workforce and Family Program, New America Foundation
Author, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family