Reading Adventures of a Curious Kat

  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a long-lasting disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both. Synopsis: Eliot Beck has been working in NYC and avoiding her family for three years. She’s also been avoiding Manuel, her best friend since childhood. Now her brother Taz is getting married and her dysfunctional blended family is returning to their vacation home on Cradle Island for the nuptials - an event she can’t avoid. The problem is - something snapped inside of her after her brother Henry died in an accident when they were both ten and the ‘Worries’ began. Despite an OCD diagnosis and therapy, the unwanted inappropriate thoughts have persisted and it’s been easier to hide from those she loves than risk the shame of them finding out she’s the bad person her thoughts tell her she is. Without Henry, she’s lost the one person who could make her feel less alone as the youngest of her four mu