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Why is everybody yelling? : growing up in my immigrant family

Call Number

  • J GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 RUSSO (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Physical Description

225 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"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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