One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Classic City Readers January Selection:
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Year Published: 1962
Place on the top 100: 28
Awards Won: Included in the list of TIME Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. It was a direct product of Kesey's time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California. Not only did he speak to the patients and witness the workings of the institution, he received electroconvulsive therapy and took psychoactive drugs (notably LSD, psilocybin, mescaline and DMT). From this, he became sympathetic toward the patients and from then on garnered enough information to write a book about mental illness and psychiatric health care and not be locked up himself.


Discussion Meeting: Friday, January 30, 2009 @ 7:30pm
Host: Cecilia
Discussion Leader: Liz

**Discussion notes coming soon!**