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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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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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