TPL Teens

Review by Jenna, Grade 12 student at Oakwood C.I.

Girl, Interrupted, author Susana Kaysen’s memoir, tells the terrifying story of a young girl who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after a less than an hour long session with a psychiatrist. After telling him about her suicide attempt, she is put in a taxi and sent off without protest. While hospitalized, she meets other young women stuck: within the confines of the hospital walls; within the stigma around mental illness; and within their own expectations from life. This book is as much about Kaysen, and her confrontation of her darkness, as it is about the other women, and the deep sadness the hospital embeds in their thoughts.