The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
The Camera My Mother Gave Me (2001) is a memoir by Susanna Kaysen, author of Girl, Interrupted, about a long period of unexplained vaginal pain. Kaysen describes visits to a series of doctors who could find no clear cause or cure, the treatments she tried, and the strain the condition put on her relationship with her boyfriend and on her sense of herself. Frank and darkly funny, the book explores how chronic pain affects the body, desire and identity, and how hard it is to describe.
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- Ryan Holiday: “The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen”