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Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
Marisabina Russo
Illustrator: Marisabina Russo
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 978-0-374-30383-9
Keywords: Judaism, Catholicism, World War II, Holocaust, Divorce, Mental Health, 1950s, 1960s
An author/illustrator chronicles growing up from 1957-67 in Queens, NY, coping with an overprotective mother, religious conflicts, and the usual childhood and adolescent issues. Detailed graphic panels.