This is a read. I think it tries to show how schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex monster of a disorder and a family happened to have six of twelve children affected by it but it fails. A huge thing it fails at and the large reason for the downvote is that it does nothing to help the stigma that people with SZ are violent. The vast majority of those with SZ are NOT violent. This book also had trouble when having points come together. It read more as fact A, Fact B, on and on versus the emotional pull the facts would be, like the sexual assault the daughters endured by a brother. Since many of the family members are dead to too sick to have a meaningful interview there is a lot of the individual personality versus what was remembered by the healthy and alive. Finally, I wish the book incorporated more of the facts of the time with SZ to compare the methods the brothers had versus the long-term consequences near the end. This book had the potential to be the emotional pull to the way people with sz were treated during that time period and the research that span across that time. Instead, this book showed a highly dysfunctional family where violence was allowed to prosper and affect all members as six came down with SZ. Ingoriing of the problem was there and keeping that sickness under wraps could have contributed just as much to the dysfunction.