Jealousy

by Sheila Schwartz

Jealous. That’s how Gayle feels almost all the time. Jealous of Prudence for getting a terrific boyfriend. Jealous of Stewart for winning the science award. Jealous of everybody.

Gayle wants to change. Jealousy only gets her in trouble. She feels angry and left out and miserable. And when she fights with Prudence and Stewart she feels hurt.

Gayle doesn’t know what to do...until a tragic accident shows her the things that really matter.

137 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

The late Sheila Schwartz is the author of the Etruscan novel Lies Will Take You Somewhere (2008). She has also authored Imagine a Great White Light, a short story collection (Pushcart Press, 1993). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly, as well as in anthologies such as The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize. She was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993 and an Ohio Arts Council Grant in 2005.

Reviews

[Reading with Cats · Rating 1 out of 5]

Whelp, that was a toxic little book. We have Gayle herself, an unpleasant, selfish twat who does not get nearly the comeuppance she deserves for her truly shitful behavior. But then nearly every single woman in this book (besides perfect Gayle, natch) complains about being overweight or equates eating with being “bad.” Nope, nope, nope...do not want.