Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Physical Desc
228 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973 C489
2 available
741.5973 C489
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
741.5973 C489
1 available
741.5973 C489
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973 C489
1 available
741.5973 C489
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 C489 | On Shelf | |
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 C489 | On Shelf | |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 C489 | Checked Out | April 30, 2024 |
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | 741.5973 C489 | On Shelf | |
Cayucos Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 C489 | On Shelf |
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Subjects
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.
Chast, Roz -- Family -- 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.
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
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 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" --,from publisher's web site.
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