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Full title: Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Jennifer Traig struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder, which manifested itself in scrupulosity, an ultra-religious form of the disease. Traig felt compelled to practice the laws of orthodox Judaism to their strangest and most minute details, which of course didn't really help her to function as a normal teenager, and which wasn't particularly easy for non-orthodox (and partly non-Jewish) family to deal with.
As a memoir, it was decent--not spectacular, but certainly not bad. Traig is smart and funny and able to make fun of her compulsions without belittling her younger self. (She fully knew she was crazy at the time, she just couldn't help it.) It's a very readable book, and Traig is an easy character to sympathize with. This book will appeal to people interested in Judaism, and to people interested in OCD and scrupulosity in particular.
As a memoir, it was decent--not spectacular, but certainly not bad. Traig is smart and funny and able to make fun of her compulsions without belittling her younger self. (She fully knew she was crazy at the time, she just couldn't help it.) It's a very readable book, and Traig is an easy character to sympathize with. This book will appeal to people interested in Judaism, and to people interested in OCD and scrupulosity in particular.
