Can't we talk about something more pleasant?: a memoir
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Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Edition:
First United States edition
Language:
English
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 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.
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Adult children of aging parents
Adult children of aging parents -- Biography
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aged
Aging parents
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Biographies
Care
Caregivers
Caregivers -- Biography
Cartoonists
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chast, Roz
Chast, Roz. -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Comics (Graphic works)
Dementia
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Family
Family relationships
Graphic novels
Patients
Wit and humor, Pictorial
Adult children of aging parents -- Biography
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aged
Aging parents
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
Biographies
Care
Caregivers
Caregivers -- Biography
Cartoonists
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chast, Roz
Chast, Roz. -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Comics (Graphic works)
Dementia
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Family
Family relationships
Graphic novels
Patients
Wit and humor, Pictorial
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9781608198061
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Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
Wit and humor, Pictorial
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Aged
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Caregivers -- Biography
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Comic books, strips, etc
Comics (Graphic works)
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
Wit and humor, Pictorial
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Family
Family relationships
Patients
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