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03723aam a2200457Ii 4500 001 C21F828A882011E9AF563E2B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190606010041 008 160218r20162014nyuac 6 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9781632861016 020 $a 1632861011 035 $a (OCoLC)940281372 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d IZ2 $d OCLCF $d GTA $d OCL $d NMWMA $d OUN $d SILO 100 1 $a Chast, Roz, $e illustrator $e illustrator 245 10 $a Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / $c Roz Chast 250 $a Paperback edition 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Bloomsbury USA, $c 2016 300 $a 228 pages : $b chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "A memoir"--Cover 500 $a First published in 2014 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 A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges 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. -- Publisher description 600 30 $a Chast family 600 10 $a Chast, Roz $x Family $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Adult children of aging parents $x Family relationships $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Aging parents $x Family relationships $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Adult children of aging parents $v Comic books, strips, etc $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Caregivers $v Comic books, strips, etc $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Dementia $x Family relationships $x Family relationships $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Aging parents $x Care $v Comic books, strips, etc 650 0 $a Cartoonists $z United States $v Comic books, strips, etc $v Comic books, strips, etc 655 7 $a Autobiographical comics. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Nonfiction comics. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Comic books, strips, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423722 941 $a 2 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323011328.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220129011837.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C21F828A882011E9AF563E2B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search