Why Is Everybody Yelling?
Book description
"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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