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

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

“Intermarriage has compromised racial identity” … ??? Maybe changed its complexion but compromised? Ok one drop …

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