Girl Interrupted

Girl Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen

1994

In 1967, at eighteen, Susanna Kaysen found herself a patient at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric institution for teenagers. This memoir chronicles her two years within its walls, a world both startlingly ordinary and profoundly strange. Through sharp observation and dark humor, Kaysen explores the blurred lines between sanity and madness, offering a vivid, unforgettable glimpse into a "parallel universe" and the complex experiences of its inhabitants.

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