Susanna Kaysen
Author
Publisher
Turtle Bay Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo subject: her vagina - which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen's often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors - internists, gynecologists, and "alternative health" experts - as well as with her boyfriend and her friends as she seeks a cure -...