by Bob Kolker | Apr 29, 2020 | Media
Robert Kolker and Oprah Winfrey on CBS This Morning, April 7,...
by Bob Kolker | Apr 28, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“Hidden Valley Road is an extraordinary scientific detective story and family saga, and it sheds light on a topic too many of us face: mental illness. Robert Kolker ushers us into the world of the Galvin family in a very intimate way. Reading their story shows us the...
by Bob Kolker | Apr 28, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“Kolker carefully reconstructs the story of the household falling into bedlam as the strong, athletic brothers warred with their demons and one another in flights of violent rage, each one slipping further away … Kolker tells their story with great compassion,...
by Bob Kolker | Apr 28, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“Drawing on untapped archives and extensive interviews with the surviving Galvins, Kolker gives us a tale like no other. As he writes in the book’s conclusion, ‘To be a member of the Galvin family is to never stop tripping on land mines of family history, buried in...
by Bob Kolker | Apr 28, 2020 | Blurb
“[Robert] Kolker’s riveting, compassionate “Hidden Valley Road” tells the story of a family besieged by devastating mental illness. The author is a tireless journalist whose last book, Lost Girls, took readers into the lives of five murdered Long Island sex workers....
