You Won't Want to Ask Her Out Bowling, Though

Sara Ivry (Nextbook) grills Jennifer Traig about how her obsessive-compulsive disorder manifested itself with a fixation on keeping shomer shabbos. Traig's memoir, Devil in the Details, may surprise some readers by how much humor she finds in her condition:

"As crippling as it can be, it can also be terrifically entertaining. I can say that because I'm lucky and didn't have an incapacitating case. I've met parents whose kids have just the most severe OCD and are just completely nonfunctional and are considering surgery. My heart really breaks for them, but for the majority who have it, it's a little bit funny. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that. It makes it much less scary."