Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography psychology science emotional informative medium-paced
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The heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand--even cure--the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the...

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informative 91%
emotional 57%
sad 51%
dark 46%
challenging 42%
reflective 40%
tense 16%
hopeful 9%
inspiring 7%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 31%
fast 7%

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