Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Last Airbender After receiving a large insurance

After receiving a large insurance settlement

where she became one of the world's most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals

whose body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course

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Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Last Airbender After receiving a large insuranceIn 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. A clear sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane