TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chast,Roz
TI  - Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
SN  - 9781608198061
AV  - NC 1429 C489c 2014
U1  - 741.5/6973092 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Chast, Roz
KW  - Cartoonists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Wit and humor, Pictorial
KW  - Tiras cómicas, historietas, etc
KW  - Caricaturas
KW  - Dibujos
KW  - Técnica
KW  - 20150700
N1  - A memoir; The beginning of the end --  Return to the fold --  The elder lawyer --  Galapagos --  The fall --  Maimonides --  Sundowning --  The end of an era --  The move --  The old apartment --  The place --  The next step --  Kleenex abounding --  Postmortem --  Elizabeth, alone --  Bedtime stories --  Chrysalis --  The end
N2  - 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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