The Vanishing Family
Reception
Rave reviews. 7 of 7 critics gave a rave.
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“Mr. Kolker has written the biography of a family, making sure that each member is memorialized as a full person before disease enters the picture.”
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“The Vanishing Family is Kolker’s gripping follow-up to the best-selling Hidden Valley Road”
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“Barb’s heart-wrenching story, and that of her family, is compassionately told in The Vanishing Family”
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Read the 3 reviews
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A Mysterious Literary Pattern
Robert Kolker’s The Vanishing Family joins a growing bookshelf of new works focusing on dementia.
By Boris Kachka
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‘The Vanishing Family,’ by Robert Kolker
In “The Vanishing Family,” Robert Kolker paints a portrait of nine siblings under threat from a vicious form of dementia.
By Casey Schwartz
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The Mysteries of Human Personality
Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family , tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.
By Julia M. Klein
