Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

by Audrey Clare Farley

Book Overview

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace M. Cho) of the Genain quadruplets, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences, from the author of The Unfit Heiress. In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical quadruplets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538724472
• ISBN13: 9781538724477
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 8.7"