Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted

By Susanna Kaysen

  • Release Date: 1994-04-19
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
4
From 489 Ratings

Description

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review).

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties.

Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Reviews

  • Girl Interrupted ❤️

    5
    By TheTattooedLady💀
    I have always been obsessed with the movie, so I thought I’d enjoy the book too, I definitely wasn’t wrong in that thought. It’s a good read, you get to see the other sides of things. As someone who has depressive tendencies, has depression disorder and a psychology major of 4.5 years I adore this book. ❤️
  • Read It In One Sitting

    5
    By poetgirl123
    Both heartbreaking and profound. Questions the line between sanity and insanity.