Jennifer is very much into her Jewish religion so a lot of her obsessions revolve around being the best and truest she can be to her faith, consisting of multiple washings, praying and flinching on sitting on furniture because the last person whose butt was there could have eaten pork.
To me it felt all very disjointed, one moment she was three and the next thirteen, I never felt a smooth flow between events. I thought the novel was more like a series of short stories or a vignette of her childhood. Quirky yes, but Devil in the Details was also a little manic (which explains the OCD). The result is a book so relentlessly funny and frank, it's totally refreshing. Devil in the Details announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up obsessive compulsive and a 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.
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