A memoir of her first thirteen years growing up in the Bronx, New York. It explores both her efforts to find herself as a budding artist and the joys and difficulties of growing up as an Armenian-American torn between two cultures.
Nonny Hogrogian is an Armenian-American writer and illustrator, known best for children's picture books. She has won two annual Caldecott Medals for U.S. children's book illustrations. Since childhood she prefers folk and fairy tales, poetry, fantasy and stories.