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Exploring a wide range of topics over twenty-five years, the collection features profound essays that delve into personal and societal themes. Andrew Solomon, an acclaimed author and thinker, shares his unique insights and experiences, reflecting on identity, culture, and the human condition. Each piece is crafted with depth and eloquence, showcasing Solomon's ability to connect individual narratives to broader societal issues, making this collection both thought-provoking and emotionally resonant.

Offers adaptation of the best-selling exploration of the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.

Set against the backdrop of a vibrant city, this compelling narrative explores the intricacies of human relationships and the pursuit of dreams. The characters navigate personal challenges and societal pressures, revealing deep emotional truths and the resilience of the human spirit. With rich, evocative prose, the story delves into themes of identity, love, and the quest for belonging, making it a poignant reflection on modern life. The author’s keen observations and engaging storytelling create a memorable reading experience.

His voice and eye are always curious, never hurried; his sentences unspool elegantly, and are sharply alive to social cadences and cultural nuance... You can see him exploring and honing the listening habits that led to that book on almost every page here... Solomon lives with his subjects as long as he is able - searching out the dissident artists of China and the Inuit of Greenland, 80% of whom suffer from depression. In this way Solomon builds a picture of the world we have inhabited in the last 25 years, seen from its four corners. Tim Adams Observer

Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.

The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies, examining it in personal, cultural, and scientific terms.

Harry, the narrator of Senior New York Times Magazine writer Andrew Solomon's first novel, is a young expatriate pianist. When Harry's mother is diagnosed with cancer, she blames her suffering on his homosexuality. Part elegy, part confession, above all an intense, vivid and moving exploration of a mother/son relationship.