"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.
Title: Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family (Hardcover)
Author: Russo, Marisabina
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: Hardcover – 30 Nov. 2021
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Subject: Comics & Graphic Novels
Binding: Hardcover
Reading Age: Young Adult
No. Of Pages: 240 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0374303839
Amazon Price: £15.99