{"product_id":"9780679746041","title":"Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaysen'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. \u003cb\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/b\u003e is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958861385968,"sku":"9780679746041","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679746041_p0.jpg?v=1763790963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679746041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}