Susanna Kaysen

Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters.From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with...

Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen’s cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic “vulvologist” has the cure. An alternative hea...

“It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . .” London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, a precocious young girl growing up in 1950s Cambridge,would rather be home than in any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harva...

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 in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert...

Girl, Interrupted Study Guide consists of approx. 45 pages of summaries and analysis on Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.