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020 $a9781608198061 (hardback)
020 $a1608198065 (hardback)
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050 14 $aNC1429.C525$bA3 2014
082 04 $a741.5/6973092$aB$223
100 1 $aChast, Roz,$eauthor,$eillustrator.
245 10 $aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? /$cRoz Chast.
246 1 $iSubtitle on cover:$aA memoir
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2014.
300 $a228 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill imagetext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet"--with predictable results--the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies--an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades--the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care" --$cfrom publisher's web site.
600 10 $aChast, Roz$xFamily$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAdult children of aging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aAging parents$xCare$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aCartoonists$zUnited States$vBiography.
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