Alie S. (Ags) reviewed on 5/17/2006 + 22 more book reviews

"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. 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--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary."

"Kaysen's memior encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers."

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