Chast, Roz,           frey50        <br/><br/>
Can't we talk about something more pleasant? :  a memoir / 
Roz Chast. 
 - First U.S. edition. 
 - 228 pages :  illustrations (some color), portraits ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> Subtitle from cover. 
<br/><br/>The beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- The elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- The fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- The end of an era -- The move -- The old apartment -- The place -- The next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- The end. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781608198061 1608198065 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>9781608198061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chast, Roz--Family
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adult children of aging parents--Family relationships--United States<br/>Aging parents--Family relationships--United States<br/>Aging parents--Care--United States<br/>Cartoonists--United States<br/>Wit and humor, Pictorial.<br/>Comic books, strips, etc.<br/>Adult Children<br/>Aged<br/>Aging<br/>Family Relations<br/>Parent-Child Relations<br/>Graphic novels.<br/>Graphic novels--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.8740846 Cha  B   9