We Ate Wonder Bread

This is veteran cartoonist Hollander’s first long-form work; her coming-of-age story, starring the gangsters, the glamorous,the bed bugs, the (enviable) Catholic girls, the police, the jukebox, the fortuneteller, and the blue Hudson—the family car, always at the ready for frequentdrives into better neighborhoods. Not only does this illustrated memoir giveinsight into how Hollander developed her style and wit, it’s a chronicle of aChicago community that has since disappeared into an expressway.