Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir / Roz Chast.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 228 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781608198061
- 1608198065
- 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 -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
- Comic books, strips, etc
- 741.5/6973092 B 23
- NC1429.C525 A2 2014
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library GRAPHIC NOVELS | Adult Nonfiction | CHAST R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003640190 |
Subtitle from cover.
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.
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