Hidden Valley Road

Hidden Valley Road is an extraordinary scientific detective story and family saga.... Robert Kolker ushers us into the world of the Galvin family in a very intimate way. Reading their story shows us the way secrets and dysfunction fester—and how families ultimately survive and endure. What took place on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. In a tour de force of narrative non-fiction, award-winning journalist Robert Kolker, author of the bestselling Lost Girls, tells the intimate story of the Galvins alongside the epic tale of science’s quest to uncover the true nature of a mystifying disease.