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03595akm a2200493 i 4500 001 E0D5353CFD8311E69D83C688DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170228010127 007 n 008 150430s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2015304302 020 $a 1608198065 020 $a 9781608198061 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Chast, Roz,. 245 10 $a Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / $c Roz Chast. 250 $a First United States edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c [2014] 300 $a 228 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a Subtitle from cover. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- Elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- Fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- End of an era -- Move -- Old apartment -- Place -- Next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- End -- Epilogue. 520 $a 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 a mixture of cartoons, family photos, 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. 541 $d 20161208. 600 10 $a Chast, Roz $x Family $v Comic books, strips, etc. 600 10 $a Chast family. 650 0 $a Adult children of aging parents $x Family relationships $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Adult children of aging parents $v Biography. 650 0 $a Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Aged $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Cartoonists $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc. $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Aging parents $x Family relationships $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Aging parents $x Care $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a Caregivers $v Biography. 650 0 $a Dementia $x Family relationships $x Family relationships $v Comic books, strips, etc. 655 0 $a Wit and humor, Pictorial. 655 0 $a Graphic novels. 655 0 $a Graphic novels. $z United States. 856 2 $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-b.html $3 Contributor biographical information 856 2 $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-d.html $3 Publisher description 941 $a 3 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191122025232.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20170523015117.0 952 $l XFPB697 $d 20170228013039.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E0D5353CFD8311E69D83C688DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search