Can't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir
Book
"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
- 30 of 32 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
1 current hold with 32 total copies.Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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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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Record details
- ISBN: 9781608198061 :
- ISBN: 1608198065
- Physical Description: pages : color illustrations ; cm.
- Publisher: [New York] : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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