New America NYC: Far From the Tree: A Conversation About Family, Difference and Acceptance

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.

Participants

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