by Bob Kolker | Apr 8, 2020 | Blurb
“Kolker’s telling of the Galvin trials is at once deeply compassionate and chilling. He gives as much voice to the schizophrenic siblings — who, one after another, had psychotic breaks, were heavily medicated with debilitating drugs, and were in and out of largely...
by Bob Kolker | Mar 31, 2020 | Blurb
“Kolker’s previous book, Lost Girls, traced the lives of five murdered women on Long Island and told a story of sex work and law enforcement during a time of technological change. His new book is a comparable feat of empathy and narrative journalism…....
by TomSeltzer | Jan 31, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again.”
by Bob Kolker | Jan 30, 2020 | Blurb
“Even if just one child has schizophrenia, everything about the internal logic of that family changes,” journalist Robert Kolker writes in his bestselling book, which traces the plight of a Colorado-based family devastated by the mental disorder. By the mid-1970s, six...
by TomSeltzer | Jan 30, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“Hidden Valley Road raises the bar on what is possible in narrative nonfiction. A marvel of reportage, research, and style, Robert Kolker dives into the exceptional story of one family besieged by humanity’s most mysterious malady. Kolker writes about the Galvin...
by TomSeltzer | Jan 29, 2020 | Blurb, Featured
“An extraordinary case study and tour de force of reporting.”
