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Book SynopsisA wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an Americanespecially 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, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her.
It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she lovesbut 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 heartfelt, unexpectedly humorou
