Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 228 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
"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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9781608198061 (hardback)
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GN Can't Chast | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Graphic Novel | Out (Due: 5/20/2024) |
GN Can't Chast | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Graphic Novel | In |
GN Can't Chast | Sandhills Indoors | Graphic Novel | In |