The release date for the English version of 'Girl, Interrupted' by
Susanna Kaysen is Apr 1994. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Following a consultation with an unfamiliar doctor in 1967, Susanna Kaysen, then eighteen, was escorted to McLean Hospital in a cab. She spent the bulk of the following two years working on the adolescent girls' ward of a mental hospital that was as well-known for its famous patients as it was for its avant-garde approaches to treating those who could afford its shelter, including Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles.
Kaysen's story paints vivid pictures of her fellow patients and their caregivers, including terror and sharply cut observation. It's a brilliant depiction of a "parallel universe" situated in the kaleidoscope-changing late 1960s. Girl, Interrupted is a perceptive, unwavering documentary that adds a distinct and long-lasting dimension to our understanding of mental illness and recovery as well as sane and crazy.