'Far From the Tree' chronicles very different children, parents

Author and psychologist Andrew Solomon’s bestselling 2012 book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity” chronicled some 300 case histories of families in which a child and the child’s parents were vastly unalike. Solomon himself, as he says in Rachel Dretzin’s documentary “Far From the Tree,” which draws on his book, grew up feeling like a “weirdo” because he realized early on that he was gay. His conservative, upper-class New York