EAN: 9781632861016

CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? - R...

#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 National Book Award Finalist Winner of the inaugural 2014
Kirkus Prize in nonfiction Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the 2014
Books for a Better Life Award Winner of the 2015 Reuben Award from National Cartoonists Society
In her first memoir  New Yorker cartoonist 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. 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  and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two
lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can  Can't We Talk about Something More
Pleasant shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.

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