A life interrupted

"Girl, Interrupted" by Suzanne Kaysen became a cult book of its time, but it gained real popularity years later, when James Mangold made a movie of the same name with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Even before the world was swept up in interest in works about people stuck in borderline states, the writer decided to share her personal drama. There is no lie or pretense in the book, so it is so easy for us, the readers, to immerse ourselves in such an unusual story.