52 WEEKS::The Bell Jar

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.

~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Esther Greenwood begins the summer with an internship at a popular women’s magazine, but her hopes for a career as a writer are dashed when she returns home to Massachusetts to discover she’s been rejected from a prestigious writing seminar. Listless and suffering from the onset of depression, Esther attempts suicide, and eventually finds herself in a variety of hospitals undergoing controversial electro-shock therapy.

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