Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
Title
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Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
Author
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Chast, Roz, author, artist.
ISBN
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9781608198061
9781632861016
Edition
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First U.S. edition.
Physical Description
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228 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Contents
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Introduction -- Beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- Elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- Fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- End of an era -- Move -- Old apartment -- Place -- Next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- End -- Epilogue.
Personal Subject
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Chast, Roz-Family-Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject Term
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Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Adult children of aging parents -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Caregivers -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Jewish families -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre
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Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Graphic novels.
Autobiographical comics.
Nonfiction comics.
More Information
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-b.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-d.html
Summary
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"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her 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, 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" 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"--
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Bayport Public Library | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels |
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Checked Out |
Lake Elmo Library | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Lake Elmo Library | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Oakdale Library | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Stillwater Public Library | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Valley Library (Lakeland) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | GRAPHIC 306.874 CHA | Graphic Novels Nonfiction |