Summer Reading Recommendations from Our Neuroscience Team

Abstract

Cindy Starr (@medwriter55), communications specialist and contract employee, UC Neuroscience Institute: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University. “Andrew Solomon presents a compendium of stories, statistics and insights about children who are nothing like their parents and the ‘horizontal communities’ they strive to find. Chapters explore children and their families who live with autism, dwarfism, disability, deafness, Down syndrome and schizophrenia. Additional chapters probe the lives of families whose children are prodigies, criminals and the product of rape. I will never see families who confront these unanticipated challenges the same way.”