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Susanna Kaysen (1948) was brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives. She has written two novels, ASA, AS I KNEW HIM and FAR AFIELD. While working on the latter, memories of her two year stay at McLean's Psychiatric Hospital began to emerge. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital. GIRL, INTERRUPTED followed.<i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women
- Scarlett Curtis,
Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story
New York Times Book Review
A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir
The Times
Memorable and stirring . . . Fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her
Vogue
Not since Sylvia Plath's <i>The Bell Jar</i> has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim
Time
Intelligent and painful
Guardian
<i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation
Scotland on Sunday
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'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women' SCARLETT CURTIS
'Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story' NEW YORK TIMES
A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.
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 to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles.
The bestselling memoir that inspired the cult classic film, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
'Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . Acompelling and heartbreaking story' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health' SCARLETT CURTIS
'Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim' TIME
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy
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 to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in the psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, Anne Sexton and Ray Charles. 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.
'A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir' GUARDIAN
'Memorable and stirring . . . A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her' VOGUE