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050	1	4	_aNC 1429 _bC489c 2014
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100	1		_aChast, Roz.
245	1	0	_aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? / _cRoz Chast.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2014.
300			_a228 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aA memoir.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aIn 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.
600	1	0	_aChast, Roz _xFamily _vComic books, strips, etc.
650		0	_aCartoonists _zUnited States _vBiography _vComic books, strips, etc.
650		0	_aGraphic novels.
650		0	_aGraphic novels _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWit and humor, Pictorial.
650		0	_aComic books, strips, etc.
650		4	_aTiras cómicas, historietas, etc..
650		4	_aCaricaturas _vDibujos _xTécnica.
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