Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir / Roz Chast.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608198061
- ISBN: 1608198065
- ISBN: 9781632861016 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1632861011 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 228 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Subtitle from cover. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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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Genre: | Graphic novels. Graphic novels > United States. Wit and humor, Pictorial. Comic books, strips, etc. |
Available copies
- 41 of 44 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at C.H. Booth Library - Newtown.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 44 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | GRA CHA (Text) | 34014131235690 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
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