Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 1993
Devastation Rating
mental health injustice literary fiction trauma
Our Take
Two years in a psychiatric ward in the 1960s, and Kaysen never stops asking what sanity means in a world that defines it by exclusion. The memoir has the structural precision of a case file and the fury of someone who survived being diagnosed rather than understood. Who decides what constitutes a broken mind?
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