This reminds me of My Name is Asher Lev You should really read that sweepy, if you haven't. Its about an orthadox Jewish boy who live in NY. His parents forbid him to draw, but he does it compulsively. Its a really good book.

I also really love this drawing. You really seem to like to separate out body parts in your work. I think in the last post there was a hear shaped thing with some contorted feet inside of it. I wonder why you like that so much.