Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen is the author of the novels Far Afield and Asa, As I Knew Him and the memoir Girl, Interrupted. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna ... [... more]
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Girl, Interrupted
 From Amazon.com: When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon [... more]
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Asa, as I Knew Him
a melancholy dream: I am only dropping a star because I couldn't get into this the first time I started it. This time around I couldn't put it down. I really enjoy Susanna Kaysen's writing style. This was a well told story, and just the right book to [... more]
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
From Amazon.com: This isn't a book you'll want to pull out on a crowded train, with clinical terms like clitoris and vulvologist, not to mention earthier ones like the F word, on virtually every page to attract the startled attention of the passenger in [... more]
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Girl, Interrupted (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Based on Susanna Kaysen's acclaimed journal-memoir, Girl, Interrupted bears inevitable resemblance to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and pale comparison to that earlier classic is impossible to avoid. The mental institution settings of [... more]
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's ...
From Amazon.com: Alex Beam's Gracefully Insane is a knowledgeable historical portrait of New England's McLean Hospital, until recently the mental institution equivalent of the Plaza Hotel. Fenceless and unguarded, McLean's grounds were landscaped by [... more]
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Trick Is To Keep Breathing
From Amazon.co.uk: Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing opens with a woman watching herself from the corner of a darkened room. Immediately, Janice Galloway sweeps us inside her heroine's confused psychology. Alone in her flat, the woman ( [... more]
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