In the bestselling tradition of "Running with Scissors" and "A Girl Named Zippy," Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.
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In the bestselling tradition of "Running with Scissors" and "A Girl Named Zippy," Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.
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New. New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 246 p Audience: General/trade Book Description When her father found the washing machine crammed with everything from her sneakers to her barrettes, 12-year-old Jennifer Traig had a simple explanation: they d been tainted by the pork fumes emanating from the kitchen and had to be cleansed The same fumes compelled Jennifer to meticulously wash her hands for 30 minutes before dinner: All scrubbed in for your big casserolectomy, Dr Traig? her mother asked It wasn t long before her family s exasperation made Jennifer realize that her behavior had gone beyond fastidious in her own eyes, she d gone from quirky girl to raving lunatic Jennifer s childhood mania was the result of her undiagnosed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder joining forces with her Hebrew studies While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow the.
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My daughter gave me this book for Mother's Day and after I peeked at the first page I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. Though Jennifer Traig's memoir of her childhood/teenage struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder reads hilariously most of the time, it's a revealing, poignant story of how the author's childhood and teenage years were really consumed by this disease. Traig's memoir stops abruptly, though, with an apparent complete resolution of her illness as soon as she went off to college. I was left wanting more information aIbout this--how could she so suddenly recover from such a debilitating mental illness? If you know a young person with OCD, this is an informative personal look into one person's experience with the disease.
Seajack
Sep 14, 2007
Hilarious!
Author spent her teen years trying to observe Jewish ritual in a non-observant mixed-faith family (her mother is Catholic). Since she had no actual religious instruction, as such, she sort of "improvises" as she goes along based upon a sketchy reading of biblical injunctions, resulting only compulsive behavior, tenuously related to the Torah - at best! Her tolerant parents just assumed she was nuts.
