Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Mechanisme_Race The floating smell of death

The floating smell of death hangs over the island

but it doesn't help

This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date

this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him

Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Mechanisme_Race The floating smell of deathIn 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