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Emily Colas

1998165 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Pocket Books · 165 pages · ENGISBN 9780671024376
  • 1998Diane Pub Co · 165 pagesISBN 9780756756765
  • 1999Washington Square Press · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780671024383

"This raw, darkly comic series of astonishing vignettes is Emily Colas' achingly honest chronicle of her twisted journey through the obsessive-compulsive disorder that came to dominate her world. In the beginning it was germs and food - to her mind, anything from ground-up hypodermic needles to disease-tainted blood could be on her restaurant plate. By the time she faced the fact that she was really "losing it," Colas had become a slave to her own "hobbies," from the frenetic daily hair trims she gave herself to the incessant inspections of her children's clothes for bloodstains, the carpet for dangerous debris, packaged goods for possible tampering. Soon there was no interval in Colas' life when she was not just checking."--BOOK JACKET.

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