
This is a sometimes disturbing, always absorbing saga of one family's voyage through the years surrounding the boom in pharmaceuticals and psychiatric care. At the center is the paternal figure William Friedrich, a professor at Yale in the mid 1950's, whose ambition and drive end in a terribly failed experiment. The family lives on to be haunted by events and people from this time -- a landmark for generations. This story grabs you in the first page and takes you through the struggles and triumphs of the Friedrichs. The denouement is a little shy of satisfying, but it is forgivable.
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