Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Status
Madison Branch - Adult Graphic Novels
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South Huntsville Branch - Adult Graphic Novels
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LC Subjects
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels -- United States.
Graphic novels.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels -- United States.
Graphic novels.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
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Subtitle from cover.
Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chast, R. (2014). Can't we talk about something more pleasant?: a memoir (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. 2014. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir. Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir Bloomsbury, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury, 2014.
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