Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
Chast, Roz,
Can't we talk about something more pleasant? Subtitle on cover: A memoir - First U.S. edition. - 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" --
1608198065 (hardback) 9781608198061
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.
Can't we talk about something more pleasant? Subtitle on cover: A memoir - First U.S. edition. - 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" --
1608198065 (hardback) 9781608198061
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.