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Girl, Interrupted: Memoir and Movie
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Girl, Interrupted: Memoir and Movie

Freddie deBoer
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the titular Girl Interrupted at Her Music by Vermeer

Reading Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted inspires two conflicting feelings: understanding completely why Hollywood was so eager to option it, and wondering how they ever hoped to pull it off.

As for the former - Kaysen manages what should be impossible, which is to make life in a psychiatr…

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