' 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.
