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a| Chast, Roz
e| author,
e| illustrator.
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1
0
a| Can't we talk about something more pleasant? :
b| a memoir /
c| Roz Chast.
250
a| First U.S. edition.
264
1
a| New York :
b| Bloomsbury,
c| 2014.
264
4
c| ©2014
300
a| 228 pages :
b| illustrations (chiefly color) ;
c| 25 cm
336
a| text
b| txt
2| rdacontent
336
a| still image
b| sti
2| rdacontent
337
a| unmediated
b| n
2| rdamedia
338
a| volume
b| nc
2| rdacarrier
500
a| Subtitle from cover.
505
0
a| 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.
520
a| 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.
600
1
0
a| Chast, Roz
x| Family
v| Comic books, strips, etc.
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650
0
a| Adult children of aging parents
x| Family relationships
z| United States
v| Comic books, strips, etc.
=| ^A1146644
650
0
a| Aging parents
x| Family relationships
z| United States
v| Comic books, strips, etc.
=| ^A492245
650
0
a| Aging parents
x| Care
z| United States
v| Comic books, strips, etc.
=| ^A149402
650
0
a| Cartoonists
z| United States
v| Biography
v| Comic books, strips, etc.
=| ^A514993
650
0
a| Wit and humor, Pictorial.
=| ^A78162
650
0
a| Graphic novels.
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650
0
a| Graphic novels
z| United States.
=| ^A566582
655
0
a| Wit and humor, Pictorial.
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655
0
a| Comic books, strips, etc.
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949
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596
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998
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999
a| NC1429 .C525 A2 2014
w| LC
c| 1
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d| 8/29/2022
e| 9/17/2019
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