
"By turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song," wrote New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani. Wurtzel was decades younger that Styron and Kaysen and far more explicit in her descriptions of razor blades that sliced up her legs at age 11, sex acts that left her with chapped lips, and a "black wave" of depression that led to a suicide attempt.
