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.
It’s supposed to have dark humour, unfortunately I thought it was kind of boring.
Read for the Read Between the Lines Reading Challenge 2025
Prompt 36: A Book with a Face on the Cover
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
