Natural Born Guilt is a coming of age story on fire, offering a glimpse into the life of a young talented, and naughty girl growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. The author holds nothing back as she tells the funny, passionate tale of a middle-class Jewish family who adopted her sister just months before they found out they were expecting her. Through the lenses of a natural born child, she takes the reader through her early years, full of rich characters, antics, and secrets, to her young hippie life in the Haight Ashbury, traipsing around with rock stars, poets, artists, and drug dealers. It's a wild ride during a crazy time, but Mendelson has complete control of the prose throughout, weaving in self-deprecating humor and wise insight.