Why Is Everybody Yelling?

By Marisabina Russo,

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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,…

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1 author picked Why Is Everybody Yelling? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a beautiful graphic memoir of a complicated and difficult family that has survived the Holocaust. And its writer-artist, the family’s young daughter, relates her coming of age story in the late 1950s and early ’60s. She proves with this very human story that with skill, sensitivity, and talent, a work of words and drawings together can be a more effective format than words alone.

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