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

400 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography psychology science emotional informative medium-paced
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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 dre...

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informative 91%
emotional 57%
sad 51%
dark 46%
challenging 42%
reflective 40%
tense 16%
hopeful 9%
inspiring 6%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 61%
slow 31%
fast 7%

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