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082 04 $a741.5/6973092$aB$223
100 1 $aChast, Roz,$eauthor,$eartist.
245 10 $aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? :$ba memoir /$cRoz Chast.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2014.
264 4 $c℗♭2014
300 $a228 pages :$billustrations (some colour), portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aSubtitle from cover.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $aIn 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.
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$vBiography$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aWit and humor, Pictorial.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aGraphic novels.
650 0 $aGraphic novels$zUnited States.
655 0 $aWit and humor, Pictorial.
655 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.
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