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• Title:Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir / Roz Chast.
  
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• Variant Title:Roz Chast : a memoir
  
• Author/Creator:Chast, Roz, author, artist.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NC1429.C525 A2 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NC1429.C525 A2 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: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--Comic books, strips, etc.
  Wit and humor, Pictorial.
  Comic books, strips, etc.
  Graphic novels.
  Graphic novels--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Adult Children--Humor.
  Aged--Humor.
  Aging--Humor.
  Family Relations--Humor.
  Parent-Child Relations--Humor.
  
• Genre/Form: Graphic novels.
  Medical comics.
  Autobiographical comics.
  Nonfiction comics.
  Personal narratives.
  
• Edition:First U.S. edition.
  
• Description:228 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Subtitle from cover.
  
• ISBN:9781608198061
  1608198065
  
• Contents: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.