{"product_id":"books-girl-interrupted-by-susanna-kaysen","title":"Girl, Interrupted","description":"The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.  \"Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim\" TIME   \"Intelligent and painful\" Guardian  \"Poignant, astonishing memoir\" New York Times   In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. 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 and Ray Charles.  A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507682533649,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781860497926.jpg?v=1778132485","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-girl-interrupted-by-susanna-kaysen","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}