Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

by Jennifer Traig

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Author: Jennifer Traig

Paperback:
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN 10: 031601074X
ISBN 13: 978-0316010740

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN 10: 0316158771
ISBN 13: 978-0316158770

Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details paints a portrait of a well-meaning Jewish girl and her good-natured parents, and takes a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Recalling the agony of growing up an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her hands for a full half hour before dinner, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes. Jennifer's childhood mania was the result of her then undiagnosed OCD joining forces with her Hebrew studies-what psychiatrists call scrupulosity

While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow them perfectly. Her parents nipped her religious obsession in the bud early on, but as her teen years went by, her natural tendency toward the extreme led her down different paths of adolescent agony and mortification.

Years later, Jennifer remembers these scenes with candor and humor. In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and A Girl Named Zippy, Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood