Girl, Interrupted: TikTok made me buy it!
Dec 2021 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
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. Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this bestselling memoir is a sharply vivid portrait of Susanna's fellow patients, the kaleidoscopically shifting world of the late sixties, and how sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
'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. 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
'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
'A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir' SUNDAY TIMES
'Memorable and stirring' VOGUE
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. Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this bestselling memoir is a sharply vivid portrait of Susanna's fellow patients, the kaleidoscopically shifting world of the late sixties, and how sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
'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. 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
'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
'A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir' SUNDAY TIMES
'Memorable and stirring' VOGUE
Ratings and reviews
4.5
22 reviews
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January 7, 2024
I was hoping for more of an in-depth story associated with Ms Kayson's experiences at Mclean Hospital, however I was rather disappointed. The paragraphs & sentences were extremely child-like & failed to draw me in & the three-page chapters did not create an easy journey to follow. The biography as a whole jumbled around from time period to time period, sort of like a Quentin Tarantino film. The story in some ways demonstrates that Ms Kayson appears to maintain some mental health issues throughout her present day life. The book overall wasn't bad, but after completing it within just 24 hours- compared to the film adaptation- it did not stand out.
Angela Paratore
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January 7, 2023
It's a nice book for sure. It's the first time that I read something like that. I know I like it, and I like the fact that the author puts herself and her life on paper. I find that extremely courageous of her. I watched the movie and I know that I am influenced by it, so I had some sort of big expectations, that's why I didn't give 5 stars. But till now, this is the most genuine biography I've ever read.
Moumita Debnath
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July 31, 2023
It didn't feel overtly emotional. The narrator's objective observation of life (it felt that way to me) actually made it bearable for me. The humour is interesting.
About the author
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.
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