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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).
Lori Schiller (born April 26, 1959), now Lori Jo Baach, is the author of the memoir The Quiet Room-- A Journey out of the Torment of Madness.When she was 17, she began to hear voices, and was later diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. [1]
Kolker's 2020 book Hidden Valley Road is the nonfiction account of the Galvins, a midcentury American family, with twelve children. The oldest son, Donald Jr. was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and then five more of his brothers were as well. The Galvins became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. [22]
The novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut, in the early 1990s.Dominick Birdsey's identical twin Thomas suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.With medication, Thomas is able to live his life in relative peace and work at a coffee stand, yet occasionally has severe episodes of illness.
His first novel, She's Come Undone, was followed six years later by I Know This Much Is True, a story about identical twin brothers, one of whom develops paranoid schizophrenia. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Both novels became number one bestsellers after Oprah Winfrey selected them for her popular Book Club .
Henry's perspective is also discussed; he is able to remember the real life situations he was in as well as the hallucinatory visions that accompanied them, and sees the whole experience of schizophrenia as being a matter of 'awakening' as much as an illness or disorder, and has been resistant to the use of anti-psychotic medication because he ...
The novel won the Costa Book of the Year and the Costa Book Award for First Novel in 2013, with chairman of the judges Rose Tremain saying it was "exceptionally moving without being sentimental" and "astonishingly sure-footed" for a first novel. [10] Additionally, the novel was awarded the Betty Trask Prize of £10,000 in 2014. [11]
Wang is the author of the 2013 novel The Border of Paradise, [3] a multi-generational family story of immigrants dealing with mental illness. Talking to The Paris Review, she spoke about using her experience with mental illness in her fiction: "I wrote The Border of Paradise with the intent of writing about psychosis, hallucinations, et cetera, in a very visceral way that I hadn’t seen before."