Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Get the Summary of Summary of Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
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 dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them...
Author
Description
Insights from Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road. Sample Insights:
1) Don and Mimi Galvin had twelve children: Donald Jr. (1945), Jim (1947), John (1949), Brian (1951), Michael (1953), Richard (1954), Joseph (1956), Mark (1957), Matthew (1958), Peter (1960), Margaret (1962), and Mary (1965). Donald Jr., Jim, Brian, Joseph, Matthew, and Peter suffered from schizophrenia.
2) Mimi's marriage was not the happy, romantic one she had envisioned before her...
Author
Formats
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title