| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
228 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"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" -- from publisher's web site. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Chast family.
|
|
Biography.
|
|
Autobiography.
|
|
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Adult children of aging parents -- Biography.
|
|
Caregivers -- Biography.
|
|
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
|
|
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
|
|
Comic books, strips, etc.
|
| Genre/Form |
Graphic novels.
|
| Added Title |
Can we not talk about something more pleasant? |
| Note |
Subtitle on cover: A memoir |
| ISBN |
9781632861016 (paperback) |
|
9781608198061 (hardback) |
|
1608198065 (hardback) |
|
