Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.

Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Displaced Generation of the Children of Martial Law
2. Arrested Maturation
3. Emasculated Men, Absent Fathers
4. Exorcising Mother-Demons: The Myth of the Polish Mother Revisited
5. At the Roots of Apostasy
Conclusion: Kitschy Parents, Barbaric Children
Notes
Bibliography
Index