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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2014
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining t...



  • A compulsively readable novel of enormous charm swimming in the cuisine and culture of the Faroe Islands from the author of Girl, Interrupted.Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Isla...



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    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. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as reno...




  • “It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . .” So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susanna Kaysen has published 5 books.

Susanna Kaysen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cambridge, was published in March 2014.

The first book by Susanna Kaysen, Asa, As I Knew Him, was published in March 1987.

No. Susanna Kaysen does not write books in series.