Girl, Interrupted [Audiobook]

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital, where 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, Ray Charles–and 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 gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

"[It is] an account of a disturbed girl's unwilling passage into womanhood…and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes."
–Diane Middlebrook, Washington Post Book World

"Searing…Girl, Interrupted captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight."
–Boston Globe

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