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Books Read in 2021 (1,320) » 11 more Best Feminist Literature (181) Penguin Random House (33) Movie Adaptations (91) 1990s (264) sad girl books (6) sad girl books (22) No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() Girl, Interrupted is a memoir by a woman who was sent to a mental institution when she was a teenager in the 1960s. The author has an interesting perspective and she's great at explaining her thoughts and experiences to the reader. Many parts of this book were beautiful and thought-provoking. There were a few things about this book that didn't work for me. The book felt disjointed and each chapter disconnected from the ones around it. There were a few times when the book became very clinical and dry. Author Susanna Kaysen was having a bad day when a psychiatrist she'd never seen before referred her for hospitalization at McLean, the top-tier mental institution of the 1960s. In her memoir Girl, Interrupted, she remembers the almost two years she spent at McLean, along with the colorful characters she met there. This slight book delves into questions of sanity vs. insanity, free expression vs. control, and Thorazine vs. everything else. Was Kaysen mentally ill, or just a sensitive, nonconformist teenager growing up during a tumultuous time? The book leaves the question open. Recommended. no reviews | add a review
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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. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. 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. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. No library descriptions found. |
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