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GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen (New York Turtle Bay Books, 1993)1. AuthorSusanna Kayson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948 where she til now lives.She is the author of books which are in some parts related to her personal experiences.She worked as a free-lance editor and proof reader until an introduction to an agentive role set her career in motion. Her novelsThe novel that caught the agents attention, Asa, As I Knew Him, was published in 1987 and people were very interested in it. Kaysen followed up the success of her start-off book three years later with her second novel, Far Afield. Kaysens third and as far as I know last book, Girl, Interrupted has been tremendously acclaimed in America and Britain.2. Subject of the bookThe book is an autobiography . Its about her memories of her two-year stay at McLeans psychiatric hospital, where she was treated for natural depression and Borderline Personality. With the help of a lawyer she obtained her 350 page file from the hospital.3. SettingThe story is set in the years 1967 to 1969.Mostly it takes place on the screen for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, which is known for its famous clients Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, Anne Sexton and Ray Charles.4. CharactersSusanna Kaysen(main character)She is an 18-year-old girl, and the story is, since it is an autobiography told from her point of view.What was going scathe with her life? She tells us she decided s...