Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, (Paperback)

from wwtct

This was really great. She's a great writer, and I hadn't really known what I was getting into when I started it. I knew it was about OCD of course, but I hadn't known about the religious aspect and I found that really interesting and different from other OCD memoirs I've read. She definitely has...

from lalalibrarian

OCD wasn't really understood in the 70s and 80s so Jenny Traig's family just thought she was really weird...she also had anorexia and scrupulosity, a form of OCD related to religion. Basically she tried to follow every Jewish law she could. This book was hilarious and I sped through it. I'm buyin...

from earthforms

This was really great. She's a great writer, and I hadn't really known what I was getting into when I started it. I knew it was about OCD of course, but I hadn't known about the religious aspect and I found that really interesting and different from other OCD memoirs I've read. She definitely has...

from knitwit2

Very funny look at a childhood ( mostly middle school) affected by OCD and religious confusion. Jennifer's mom was Catholic, her dad Jewish - she identified more with Judaism. With very little in the way of instruction she sort of made up her religion as she went along. This make it up as you go ...

from KLmesoftly

An amusing, self-deprecating account of one woman's lifelong struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the religious scruples and eating disorder that accompanied it. She weaves the tale well with descriptions of her relationships with her family members during this time and the experience...