책 review
책이름: Far from the Tree
저자: Andrew Solomon
* Noonday Demon (2001) 책으로 National Book Award상받음
가격: $ 25.17
page: 976페이지
오래만에 귀한 책이 출판되었다. 뉴욕일간지에서도2012년
좋은책 10권에 선택되었읍니다. 툭하면 자식위해 애리트 만드는법
같은 책이 나왔는데 ( 좋은 예로Tiger Mother-2011 by Amy Chua)
이번책은 부모들이 낳은 자식들이 정상아이로 태어나지 못해서
장애자, 범죄자, 동성애로 태어나 사회에 돌림당하는 자식때문에
어떤 고통, 어떻게 대처하는지를 10여년간 300가족의 4만-페이지
방대한 자료를가지고 976 페이지 책을 출판하였다.
청각장애인 마을 Bali도 찾아가고 청소년 교도소 미니아 포리스
도 방문하였으며 범죄자 아버지가 죄책감에 자식에게 관용을 배풀어
(lenient) 자식을 버려놓은 사실을 지적했고 비극을 받아드린 부모가 치료
하는 부모들도 있지만 stigmatize, romanticize하는 부모가 있다고 지적
하였다. 어떤 평론가는 공포와 미(beauty)를 읽을수있는 책이라고 말합니다.
NYT review에서 평한 글입니다.
This is passionate and affecting work that will shake up your preconception
Note: Apple does not fall far from the tree 에서 제목을 택한것같읍니다
( 자식이 부모와 닮는다, 그애비에 그 자식, 虎父無犬子)
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대학교, 시립,국립도서관에 비치해둘 책같아 추천합니다.
Review by Robin Roger of The Globe and Mail
Solomon, the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon, a study of depression, alternates between theoretical speculation, reportage and personal history. His theory is that when children display dramatically different traits – which he calls horizontal traits – from their parents, identity formation is complicated and painful for all concerned. The way this happens with each of these groups differs according to their particular condition, but Solomon thinks that because they share the common problem of identity formation under extreme stress, they ought to feel empathy toward each other. They are seeking the same things – acceptance, resources and integration into society – and dealing with the same problem, how to be functional with severe restrictions, and so have reason to see how alike they are. In other words, they should acknowledge a common identity as being anomalous apples that all fall far from the tree.
Yet the extensive profiles of each of these groups shows how unalike they are. The causes, treatments, cures, remedial interventions, prevalence and prognosis for each group are highly idiosyncratic, and many are in a rapid state of change because of technological advances (even to the point of eliminating conditions that can be diagnosed in utero and terminated before birth) and intense activism.
The possibility of hope for each group is vastly different. Their developmental potential determines the kind of identity they might achieve. For children with multiple severe disability, who cannot speak, feed themselves or walk, and will never live independently, identity isn’t even a possibility. The burden faced by the parents of these children also varies greatly. To have an autistic child means lifelong complicated interventions and arduous accommodations, and separation from the broader community of families. This is completely different from the life now faced by Sue and Tom Klebold, whose son Dylan was one of the two perpetrators of the Columbine massacre, and who live with notoriety, remorse and grief.