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"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A woman recounts coming of age in the shadow of her father's mental illness in this "candid, unsettling portrait of madness and enduring love" ( Kirkus ). Deborah A. Lott grew up in a Los Angeles suburb in the 1950s, under the sway of her outrageously eccentric father. A lay rabbi who enjoyed dressing up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, he taught her how to have fun. But he also taught her to fear germs, other children, and contamination from the world...
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