{"product_id":"nowhere-near-normal-a-memoir-of-ocd-9781439192511","title":"Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of Ocd","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the bestselling tradition of Augusten Burroughs, a compassionate, witty, and completely candid memoir that chronicles growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003eGod. \u003c\/i\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraci 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Traci Foust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439192511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoust, Traci:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTraci Foust\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and received a degree in American Literature from UCSC. Her writing credits included contemporary short fiction in \u003ci\u003eThe Black Satellite Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) to winning the \u003ci\u003eNorthern California Olympiad of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e award for the same category. She has also been published in \u003ci\u003eHyperlexia Literary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(3\/09). She currently lives in San Diego, CA. \u003ci\u003eNowhere Near Normal is\u003c\/i\u003e her first book-length work of nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44707455697011,"sku":"9781439192511","price":28.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_772bd287-0227-4efe-937d-b0b76f825a09.jpg?v=1775840143","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/nowhere-near-normal-a-memoir-of-ocd-9781439192511","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}