Nita’s Reviews > Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity > Status Update

Transgender chapter just as brutal as the rest, but I’m glad I’m reading this book even if it is hurting my wrists to hold up. I am going to need a lighthearted romp and/or a beach vacation after finishing this book… brilliant move to read as we make our way to the winter solstice 😬

“Our hardest conversations aren’t with other people; they’re with ourselves.”

I’m feeling tender lately, perhaps spurred by the now near-constant thrum of pain I’m in in my torso and arms, so this last chapter about the parents of children in juvenile detention has me all sorts of upset and worried about my kid with scant impulse control etc. But mostly the humanity of this book is a slow tsunami of sadness I almost cannot bear to hold.

Oof

Autism chapter. Oof

Incredibly well researched