Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir
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"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" --
Available copies
- 31 of 32 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
1 current hold with 32 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Ardsley Public Library | GRAPHIC BIO CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31000151057976 |
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| Bedford Free Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31002150639085 |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31036150669692 |
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| Bronxville Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31004151384356 |
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| Chappaqua Library | ADULT GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31005154303962 |
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| Chappaqua Library | BIOGRAPHY CHAST, ROZ (Text) Biography |
31005154289997 |
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| Croton Free Library | GRAPHIC/B CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31006151423027 |
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| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31007151138458 |
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| Eastchester Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31008151962046 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | GN B CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31009154133130 |
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| Harrison Public Library | BIO CHAST (Text) Biography |
31010300023522 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31016151442455 |
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| Irvington Public Library | GN BIO CHAST, R (Text) Graphic Book |
31012154157455 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31030154149082 |
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| Katonah Village Library | GRAPHIC CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31013151564388 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31014152181206 |
Checked out 04/13/2024 |
| Lewisboro Library | BIOGRAPHY CHAST (Text) Biography |
31032151216385 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | GN B CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31015151986420 |
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| Mount Pleasant Public Library | GRAPHIC BIO CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31024153042356 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31018154708163 |
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| North Castle Public Library | GN B CHAST (CORE) (Text) Graphic Book |
31001151622397 |
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| Ossining Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31021152826649 |
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| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31025152230140 |
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| Pound Ridge Library District | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31026150846044 |
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| Ruth Keeler Memorial Library | B CHAST (Text) Nonfiction |
31020150681287 |
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| The Field Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31022151590772 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31023151041907 |
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| White Plains Public Library | BIOGRAPHY CHAST, ROZ (Text) Graphic Book |
31544100850270 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | B CHAST (Text) Biography |
31035160507215 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | B Chast (Text) Nonfiction |
31035162136631 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | YA Graphic B CHAST (Text) Graphic Book |
31035159987279 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | YA GRAPHIC B CHAST (Text) YA Graphic Book |
31035162136831 |
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