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Book Review of Devil in the Details : Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

Devil in the Details : Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
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Helpful Score: 9


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 "improvised" as she went along based upon a sketchy reading of biblical injunctions, resulting in compulsive behavior, tenuously related to the Torah - at best! Her tolerant parents just assumed she was nuts.