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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Roz ChastPublish date:2014-05-06Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781608198061ISBN-10:1608198065UPC:9781608198061Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, NonfictionAward:2014 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 New England Book Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 National Book Awards Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2014 Kirkus Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Graphic Novel Award|2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Autobiography Award|2015 Books for a Better Life Winner - Inspirational Memoir Award|2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist - Humor Award|2015 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.55 x 7.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCP10HZRMT

#1 New York Times Bestseller

2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

In her first memoir, New Yorker 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.

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.

An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9781608198061ISBN-10:1608198065UPC:9781608198061Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, NonfictionAward:2014 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 New England Book Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 National Book Awards Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2014 Kirkus Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Graphic Novel Award|2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Autobiography Award|2015 Books for a Better Life Winner - Inspirational Memoir Award|2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist - Humor Award|2015 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.55 x 7.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCP10HZRMT
Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including the national bestseller Going into Town, What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her own cartoons The Party After You Left and Theories of Everything. She is the editor of The Best American Comics 2016 and the illustrator of Calvin Trillin's No Fair! No Fair! and Daniel Menaker's The African Svelte, all published in Fall 2016. She was awarded the Harvey Award Hall of Fame Award.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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🏆 2014 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 New England Book Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 National Book Awards Finalist - Nonfiction Award|2014 Kirkus Prize Winner - Nonfiction Award|2014 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Graphic Novel Award|2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Autobiography Award|2015 Books for a Better Life Winner - Inspirational Memoir Award|2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist - Humor Award|2015 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Nonfiction Award

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