Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Recalling the agony of growing up as an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behaviour - like scrubbing her hands for a full half-hour before meals, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it...
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Recalling the agony of growing up as an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behaviour - like scrubbing her hands for a full half-hour before meals, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316010740 (031601074X)
ASIN: 031601074X
Publish date: February 9th 2006
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 242
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Health,
Religion,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Judaism
I did not enjoy this book AT ALL; I felt compelled to finish it just so I could say I did.When I started "Devil in the Details," it was with the expectation that it would be about Jennifer Traig's struggle with OCD, maybe with a funny lean to it since she is known in the McSweeney's circuit. I was N...
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