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<B>In the bestselling tradition of Augusten Burroughs, a compassionate, witty, and completely candid memoir that chronicles growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. </B><BR><BR>When all the neighborhood kids were playing outdoors, seven-year-old Traci Foust was inside making sure the miniature Catholic saint statues on her windowsill always pointed north, scratching out bald patches on her scalp, and snapping her fingers after every utterance of the word <I>God. </I>As Traci grew older, her OCD blossomed to include panic attacks and bizarre behaviors, including a fear of the sun, an obsession with contracting eradicated diseases, and the idea that she could catch herself on fire just by thinking about it. While stints of therapy -- and lots of Nyquil -- sometimes helped, nothing alleviated the fact that her single mother and mid-life crisis father had no idea how to deal with her. <BR><BR>Traci Foust shares her wacky and compelling journey with brutal honesty, from becoming a teenage runaway on the poetry slam beat in the hippie beach towns of Northern California to living at a family-owned nursing home, in a room with a seventy-five- year-old WWII Vet who kept mistaking her for a prostitute. In this funny, frenetic, and wonderfully dark-humored account of her struggles with a variety of psychological disorders, Traci ultimately concludes that there is nothing special about being "normal."
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Advance Praise for NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL"A moving memoir... giving readers an intimate look at OCD from the inside"Publisher's Weekly"Funny, frenetic and painfully honest."Rachel Simon, Bestselling Author, Riding the Bus with my Sister"... You see yourself in her again and again."Kerry Cohen, Award Winning Author of Loose Girl, Easy and Seeing Ezra"Foust writes like a possessed Lynda Barry, all the dirty little secrets of adolescence are laid bare in this remarkable story."D.A. Kodelenko, San Diego City Beat Magazine
