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

The floating smell of death hangs over the island

Maybe after reading the true story

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

another tale unfolds: hand-scribbled notes

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

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