Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive GirlhoodJennifer 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 02/09/2006
ISBN: 9780316010740
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.56w x 0.72d
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 85709 / Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Reading Level: 7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12