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Author:

Chast, Roz, illustrator. illustrator.

Title:

Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / Roz Chast.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

228 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Chast, Roz--Family--Comic books, strips, etc.
Adult children of aging parents--Family relationships--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents--Family relationships--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents--Care--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists--United States--Biography.

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" -- from publisher's web site.

ISBN:

9781608198061
1608198065 (hardback)

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