The Camera My Mother Gave Me: A Memoir-Fast Shipping

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Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to neither Kaysen’s cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic “vulvologist” has the alternative health nurse suggests direct application of tea, baking soda, and boric recommend novocaine, oatmeal, “bio-feedback,” and sex becomes more and more painful, Kaysen’s relationship with her boyfriend disintegrates and she turns to her best friends, her wicked sense of humor, and finally wry self-reflection to get herself through.

Using this unusual lens, Kaysen challenges us to think in new ways about the centrality and power of sexuality.
The Camera My Mother Gave Me is an unexpected and revelatory book from one of our most candid, insightful and consistently surprising writers.