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Chast, Roz.
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Chast, Roz.
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Care -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Women cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.
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Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : [a memoir] / Roz Chast.
by
Chast, Roz.
Bloomsbury, 2014.
Call #:
741.5 C489c
Subjects
Chast, Roz
--
Family
--
Comic
books
,
strips
,
etc
.
Adult children of
aging
parents
--
Family relationships
--
Comic
books
,
strips
,
etc
.
Aging
parents
--
Family relationships
--
Comic
books
,
strips
,
etc
.
Aging
parents
--
Care
--
Comic
books
,
strips
,
etc
.
Women cartoonists
--
United States
--
Biography.
Cartoonists
--
United States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781608198061 (hc.)
1608198065 (hc.)
Description:
228 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of
aging
parents
. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and
comic
relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly
parents
. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the 'crazy closet'--with predictable results--the tools that had served Roz well through her
parents
' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies--an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades--the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role;
aging
and unstable
parents
leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal
care
. A portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, this book shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller. Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker. She is the author of Theories of everything: selected, collected, and health-inspected cartoons, and What I hate: from A to Z"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Comic
books
,
strips
,
etc
.
Graphic non-fiction.
Memoirs.
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0
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Adult Graphic Nonfiction
741.5 C489c
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