Girl, Interrupted

30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

''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