On her first day of secondary school

himself a transgender man

from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors

and God through their encounters with great writing

But when she discovers that her new school has a secret Arson Club

Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir Format:Paperback On her first day of30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest triumphantly funny and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its