Growing up guilty: A novel

by Sheila Schwartz

An intelligent, naive, and lonely girl in Brooklyn grows up in the late 1930's, coping with first love, communist ideology, and changing ideas of her self-perception.

177 pages, Hardcover

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.