Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
(Graphic Novel)
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LC Subjects
Adult children of aging parents -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Care -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Autobiographical comics.
Autobiographies.
Caregivers -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chast family
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Care -- Comic books, strips, etc
Aging parents -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Autobiographical comics.
Autobiographies.
Caregivers -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chast family
Chast, Roz -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.
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Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, 2016.
Format
Graphic Novel
Physical Desc
228 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A memoir"--Cover
General Note
First published in 2014
Description
A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges
Description
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. -- Publisher description
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chast, R. (2016). Can't we talk about something more pleasant? (Paperback edition). Bloomsbury USA.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. 2016. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Bloomsbury USA.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Bloomsbury USA, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chast, Roz. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Paperback edition, Bloomsbury USA, 2016.
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