Title:
Why is everybody yelling? : growing up in my immigrant family / Marisabina Russo.
ISBN:
9780374303839
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Physical Description:
225 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
God's grace (1957) -- Language barrier (1957) -- Piccolo Pucci (1957) -- Sans Souci (1957) -- Real-life Christmas (1957) -- Command performanc e (1958) -- The man in the gray suit (1958) -- Roman holiday (1958) -- Oma's miracle (1958) -- Two new friends (1958-59) -- A room of my own (1958-59) -- My worst enemy (1959) -- Camp (1960) -- A haircut like Jackie's (1960) -- Junior bridesmaid (1961-62) -- Bernadette (1962-63) -- Life goes on (1963-64) -- Never stand next to pretty girls (1964-65) -- The lucky one (1965) -- And that's the way it is (1965) -- Maybe dating isn't all it's cracked up to be (1966) -- Surprise party (1966-67) -- Life story (1967)
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.
Geographic Term:
Audience:
HL610L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1277295495
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
