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Born November 11, 1948
Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston and the Cambridge School before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. It was there she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after eighteen months. She later drew on this experience for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, which was made into a film in 1999.
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Solid, wryly funny meditation on the nature of sanity in an insane world. Really nothing like the movie, which I see as a melodramatic riff on the same themes. The final stretch had me on the verge of tears, especially when Kaysen goes into the museum with he…
