Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen 

This is a beautiful memoir, I watched the film many many years ago when it first came out, and knew that one day I'd get my hands on the book. It took a while and some hard searching and finally got it for a reasonable price, second hand from worldofbooks.com I read it in a few hours, although it is short - it has an impact. 

 

Without any major spoilers, it's about this woman's time during her stay at a hospital for a personality disorder, its about the friendships and relationships she forms while she's in the unit, the care from the nurses and doctors and it also highlights several stories for how some of the girls lives turned out. The book itself even has parts of her hospital notes and documents from the time she was admitted to her time leaving the institute. To be honest, when I first brought the book I had no idea it was a memoir, it just looked like a story I was interested in completely. Truly though I'm not sure it was intentional but Kaysen it genuinely funny and light hearted even without trying to be. She's taking something that was probably quite traumatic in her life and made it positive, it seems like in a strange way - she actually enjoyed her time there and made some lifelong friends, even if possibly she never saw them again once she left. Although, I think we all have friends who you don't spend time with and once you see them again, boom it's like you never spent time apart. 

 All in all, I gave this 5/5 stars on my goodreads because I genuinely loved it and would happily read it again. If you're looking for something, quick, real and raw then try this. It does not disappoint. Thank you

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