A distracted girl, by Susanna Kaizen

Exciting memoirs address a side of what the author called "the parallel universe" and represent the result of a personal experience she lived through in a psychiatric hospital. It also provides an intimate picture of the lives of a group of girls who accompanied her in that experience, and their strange behaviors. It offers a unique opportunity to observe that world and the society surrounding it in the sixties of the last century. The book also deals with the disorders the author suffered from before entering the hospital and depicts her observations of its inmates, those who care for them, and the events that accompany them. It conveys details of the ordeal, loss, human suffering, madness and its sections and effects, then the transition to the outside world and how to reintegrate into it again. "Distracted Girl" gained great popularity, leading to a film of the same name in 1999 starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.