Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir

Name: Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir
Price: 13.99 USD
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Rating: 4.4 (8630 reviews)
Author: Susanna Kaysen

by Susanna Kaysen

Memoir Biography Memoir

4.4 (8,630)

4.4 stars from 8,630 reviews. One of the highest rated Memoir books we track.

168 pages~2.8 hr readPublished by Thorndike PressPublished 1993-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You're interested in psychiatric history and want a firsthand account that doesn't romanticise mental illness or recovery.
You appreciate brutally honest memoirs that mix dark humour with real vulnerability, especially about adolescence and identity.
You've seen the film and want to read the actual story Kaysen lived, with all its complexity and specificity intact.

Maybe not for you if...

You're looking for an uplifting recovery narrative with a neat resolution, because this book resists that comfort.
You need a straightforward chronological story, since Kaysen's account jumps around and circles back on itself deliberately.
You prefer longer, deeply researched memoirs; this one is slim and impressionistic rather than exhaustively detailed.

About this book

In 1967, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was admitted to McLean Hospital after seeing a psychiatrist for the first time. Her memoir recounts the following two years of her stay. McLean's ward for teenage girls was known both for its notable former patients—including Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—and for its progressive treatment approaches available to those who could afford it. Kaysen's account presents vivid portraits of her fellow patients and staff while exploring both the difficult realities and sharp observations of her experience. Set against the backdrop of the late 1960s, the memoir examines what it means to be labeled sane or insane, and explores questions of mental illness and recovery.

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Currently 4.4★ from 8,630 reviews

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