Captain Grownup

by Kit Reed

AT SOME POINT IN EVERY MAN'S LIFE, A YOUNG GIRL IS GOING TO GET HIM INTO TROUBLE
Willard Michaels reached that point about the same time his wife kicked him out of their marriage, their life, and New Haven, and he began teaching English at a high school in the sticks.
  In Michaels' case the trouble was plain, gum-chewing Susan Hinners.
  All Michaels wanted to do was help Susan develop her remarkable literary talent. But he hadn't counted on her mad father, murderous brother, and man-eating sister…hadn't considered the explosive urges of an awakening teenager…

286 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 1976

About the author

Kit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.

Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.