| Girls and Their Monsters | |
| Author: | Audrey Clare Farley |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Pub Date: | June 13, 2023 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-5387-2447-7 |
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Audrey Clare Farley.[1] [2]
A summary of the lives of the Morlokk girls, identical quadruplets, born in 1930. The book details the girls' history from birth, including chapters about their parents, various psychiatrists that had large impacts on them, and similar families. In Girls and Their Monsters, the dark secrets hidden behind the closed doors of the Morlok house are revealed; the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse that occurred, and the way their innocence was so vehemently upheld, but violated in so many ways. It describes their spiral down into their own mental illness and how this greatly impacted their public image, and the study that followed. Girls and Their Monsters also contains not only a detailed history of psychiatry, and how the study of the quadruplets pushed research on schizophrenia forward, but how the bias of mental illness in relation to people of color progressed throughout time.
The Los Angeles Review of Books called Girls and Their Monsters a "fascinating story".[3]