02891cam a2200337 4500 526377068 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620406380 1620406381 B00JA9JE0Y Amazon 64f8360f-7488-4b15-aff5-4ca4386e7cfb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1896480 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant [Libby] : A Memoir. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Reference. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br /> <br /> <b>2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST</b><br /> <br /> In her first memoir, <i>New Yorker</i> cartoonist 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, <i>Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant</i> will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. National Book Critics Circle Award. 10 Best Books of 2014. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/cant-we-talk?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/cant-we-talk?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)