''About Us'' is a novel by the American writer Chester Aaron set in 1930s

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

.Lillard, Richard G. Portrait of an Adolescent America, ''Los Angeles Times'', 16 July 1967 It tells the story of the Kahns, a Jewish family who run a small general store in the fictional village of Sundown, a coal patch in

Butler County, Pennsylvania Butler County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is part of Western Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 193,763. Its county seat is Butler. Butler County was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Alleghe ...

outside of

. The protagonist is Benny Kahn, age eight when the novel begins, and his coming-of-age is sketched against the backdrop of the events of

Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

through World War II.

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* 1967 American novels Jewish American novels Novels set in Pennsylvania Fiction set in the 1930s Butler County, Pennsylvania 1967 debut novels {{1960s-novel-stub