Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker
Buy on AmazonOPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR PEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New York Post, and Amazon The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream.…
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"Robert Kolker tells the true story of the Galvin family. They had 12 children, and six of their 10 boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1960s and 1970s, when far less was known about the disease. From the problems with institutions and ineffective treatments to the family’s work with researchers who wanted to study them, it’s a sobering look at the lives the brothers lived and the way the family as a whole was changed."
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