Solomon, Andrew. (2014). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.

The article talks about the relationship between the parents and their children, and the struggle for searching one’s identity in the society. In the article, Andrew Solomon who is a prolific writer gives us his personal experience with his parents, and this gives the readers an insight of the predicaments associated with the pursuit of happiness in life and the search for identity. Solomon had loving parents who took good care of him since he was a child but his state of happiness changed after he graduated from Cambridge University. The death Solomon’s mother subjected him to depression, and it is during this period when Solomon discovered his identity as a person for the first time in many years of searching for it.