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Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Following her suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen finds herself placed in a ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous patients including Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles. Susanna’s memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.

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