By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. But the onset of the 20th century was offering real-life people with accessible narratives about living through the counterculture of the 1960s, second-wave feminism in the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Its legacy has also made its way to BookTok, where it frequently gets featured in videos displaying “ Sad Girl” reads, which has generated some controversy.Īccording to The Paris Review, Girl, Interrupted was an “early entry in the publishing gold rush that would be termed the memoir boom.” Autobiographies had long existed, but it was typically a genre that was reserved for the rich, powerful, and famous. It continues to remain popular today at the time of its 25th anniversary in 2018, there were 1.5 million copies still in print in the United States. The novel was a New York Times bestseller in both its hardcover and paperback editions, 11 weeks in the former and 23 weeks in the latter. This June, Susanna Kaysen’s acclaimed memoir Girl, Interrupted-which was later adapted into a film adaptation starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, winning the latter an Academy Award-turns 30 years old.
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