Growing Up Guilty

by Sheila Schwartz

Growing Up Guilty is the story of a young girl's coming of age at the onset of World War II. Susan finds it difficult to understand life with her hostile mother and passive father.It is also difficult for her to understand the social and political forces swirling around her. Her life changes when she meets Sol in high school. At his home, Susan finds a different world.Susan lives in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor but her coming of age problems are universal for all young women seeking to find themselves.

188 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 1978

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.