03634ckm a2200529 i 4500 2426145897 TxAuBib 20250702120000.0 150430s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015304302 9781608198061 1608198065 (OCoLC)860395376 TxAuBib rda Chast, Roz, author. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? / Roz Chast. First United States edition. New York : Bloomsbury, [2014] 228 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 25 cm. sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier txt rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Subtitle from cover. 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. 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. 20250702. Chast, Roz Family Comic books, strips, etc. Chast family. Cartoonists United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc. Adult children of aging parents Family relationships United States Comic books, strips, etc. Adult children of aging parents Biography. Aging parents Family relationships United States Comic books, strips, etc. Aging parents Care United States Comic books, strips, etc. Caregivers Biography. Dementia Patients Family relationships Comic books, strips, etc. Aged Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels United States. Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. lcgft Wit and humor, Pictorial. Biographies. lcgft http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-b.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2015304302-d.html Publisher description