Author

Robert Kolker

We've read and reviewed Robert Kolker's science and journalism book Hidden Valley Road on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.

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Hidden Valley Road

by Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker tells the story of the Galvins, a postwar American family with twelve children, six of whom developed schizophrenia. It's a harrowing family saga and a lucid history of how psychiatry tried, and repeatedly failed, to understand the illness, woven together with remarkable control.