"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.
"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 ho...
When her father abandons his family for one of his students, a 16-year-old girl witnesses her mother's painful but often comical metamorphosis into an independent person.
When her father abandons his family for one of his students, a 16-year-old girl witnesses her mother's painful but often comical metamorphosis into an...
In a voice reminiscent of Cynthia Ozick, this Jewish/Gothic novel renders the fracture and healing of the Rosen family. Jane Rosen leaves her three daughters and husband Saul, a rabbi, to care for her mother in Florida. In Jane's absence, Saul discovers--through the deathbed confession of a man in his congregation--that his wife had an affair ten years earlier. Enraged, he ostracizes Jane from the family and strands her in Florida with her grief.
Shelia Schwartz's first novel navigates through the psychological and spiritual shoals of modern life where ancient wisdom urges hope and...
In a voice reminiscent of Cynthia Ozick, this Jewish/Gothic novel renders the fracture and healing of the Rosen family. Jane Rosen leaves her three...
