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A review by sleeson
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
2.75
I find memoirs and non-fiction books surrounding mental illness fascinating. I have some pushback when it comes to the diagnosis of mental illness in families born before 1957. I still have many other books to read. But so far, the common denominator of the stories I've read, is the extreme physical & mental abuse received by their parents, very early in age. I have anger on behalf of these women toward their parents, teachers, and doctors. They held these women back and continuously let them down for no reason. They deserved better.
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Bullying, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Physical abuse