Name: Why Is Everybody Yelling? : Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
Author: Russo, Marisabina
ISBN: [978-1-25089-457-1,1-25089-457-3]

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Why Is Everybody Yelling? : Growing Up in My Immigrant Family

Author: Russo, Marisabina

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Follett Number: 2709FC4
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Square Fish, c2021, p2023
Format: 225 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-25089-457-1
ISBN-10: 1-25089-457-3
Dewey: 813
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Authors, American Cartoons and Comics

Autobiographical Comics

Cartoons and Comics

Comics (Graphic Works)

Family Life Cartoons and Comics

Identity Cartoons and Comics

Illustrators Cartoons and Comics

Jews Cartoons and Comics

New York (State) Cartoons and Comics

Nonfiction Comics

Russo, Marisabina Cartoons and Comics

Russo, Marisabina Childhood and Youth Cartoons and Comics

Women Biography Cartoons and Comics

"Farrar, Straus and Giroux." "It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young life into the tumultuous, liberating 1960s, this . . . graphic-novel memoir explores the childhood burdens of memory and guilt, and Marisabina's struggle and success in forming an identity entirely her own"--Provided by publisher.

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"A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an American--especially a first-generation American." --Roz Chast This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author's experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her. It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young life into the tumultuous, liberating 1960s, this heartfelt, unexpectedly humorous, and meticulously illustrated graphic-novel memoir explores the childhood burdens of memory and guilt, and Marisabina's struggle and success in forming an identity entirely her own.

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