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Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
- Title
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / Roz Chast.
- Author
- Chast, Roz
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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- Description
- 228 pages : color illustrations; 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" --
- Alternative Title
- A memoir
- 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
- Call Number
- JFE 15-104
- ISBN
- 9781608198061
- 1608198065
- OCLC
- 860395376
- Author
- Chast, Roz, author, illustrator.
- Title
- Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / Roz Chast.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagetext
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Note
- Subtitle on cover: A memoir
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-104