Part I: Crazy Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 1: Bedbug Blues, one morning Susannah Cahalan woke to find what she thought were two bedbug bites on her arm. She had been having dreams about bedbugs which had apparently infested New York City. She called in an exterminator who told her that her studio apartment was clear of the pests. But she was so fearful about them that she had him spray for them any way. At work in the newsroom of the New York Post she tried to appear nonchalant and made sure to hide her bites. Susannah who was now twenty-for had started as a seventeen-year-old intern with the Post.

Susannah asked Angela, her closest friend and a veteran reporter at the Post, if she knew anything about bedbugs. Before they could get into a discussion about the bugs, Susannah was called into...