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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

An Oprah's Book Club pick and #1 New York Times bestseller, Hidden Valley Road is the true medical detective story of an American family who became science's greatest hope in the quest to understand schizophrenia.

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.52

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Anonymous
Mar 23, 2024
10/10 stars
Given my interest and career in forensic psych, schizophrenia is obviously a disease that I am likely to work with often in the future. This book was a really nice look into the world of research into and development of the disease known as schizophrenia, but more than that, I really enjoyed the personal story of how schizophrenia has affected the Galvin family and how they subsequently became involved in genetic research. I really can't imagine ...read more
margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
What an exceptional work of journalism. Kolker has obviously done extensive research on schizophrenia and the hours of interviews and journal or medical record reading he must have engaged in to tease out a coherent story about the Galvins, who had spent years masking their own reality from the world. It was horrifying to read about the numerous and varied psychotic breaks that the 6 diagnosed schizophrenic brothers had. And heartbreaking to se...read more
Carol.Ann
Nov 16, 2023
8/10 stars
Wow. What a story. A TRUE STORY. I know very little about schizophrenia but had the incorrect impression that it was all about multiple personalities. This book was eye opening and helped me realize how devastating schizophrenia can be. Well-written and very readable, the author gives a look into the Galvin family where 6 of their 12 children are diagnosed with the disease, how it manifested differently in each, how it affected even the healthy m...read more
PaigePink11
Mar 31, 2023
Mindblowing
MauveSoul8099
Feb 24, 2023
10/10 stars
fascinating and heartbreaking

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