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Chast, Roz, author, artist.
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Chast, Roz -- 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 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Can't we talk about ...
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Can't we talk about something more pleasant? / Roz Chast.
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Chast, Roz, author, artist.
New York : Bloomsbury, c2014.
Subjects
Chast, Roz -- 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 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781608198061 :
1608198065
Description:
228 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
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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.
Awards:
Kirkus Prize, 2014: Nonfiction.
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Makawao Public Library
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Mililani Public Library
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Waianae Public Library
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