Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted details her two-year stay at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts after a 1967 suicide attempt. The book is a series of vignettes that depict the people and experiences Kaysen encounters at the affluent psychiatric facility. Kaysen befriends a group of troubled women, including a pathological liar, a schizophrenic, an anorexic, and a sociopath.