Andrew Solomon is the author of
The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost,
A Stone Boat,
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, winner of
fourteen national awards, including the 2001 National Book Award, and
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.
He named
his five favorite books about family love for
The Daily Beast. One title on the list:
Jacob’s Room
by Virginia Woolf
No book better describes how a mother loves her child; none better sums up the pain that relinquishing him into the world entails. Woolf ponders Betty Flanders writing to Jacob and comments on “how mothers … scribble over the fire … and can never, never say, whatever it might be—probably this—Don’t go with bad women, do be a good boy, wear your thick shirts; and come back, come back, come back to me.” Elsewhere in the book, Woolf writes, “These changes of mood wear us out.” That sums it up.
Read about
another book on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
fourteen national awards, including the 2001 National Book Award, and Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.
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