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100 1 $aChast, Roz.
245 10$aCan't we talk about something more pleasant? :$ba memoir /$cRoz Chast.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2014.
300 $a228 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.), port. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aSubtitle from cover.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- Elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- Fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- End of an era -- Move -- Old apartment -- Place -- Next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- End -- Epilogue.
520 $aIn her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet" -- with predictable results -- the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies -- an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades -- the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.
600 10$aChast, Roz$xFamily$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0$aAdult children of aging parents$vBiography.
650 0$aCaregivers$vBiography.
650 0$aDementia$xPatients$xFamily relationships$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0$aAging parents$xCare$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 2$aAged$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0$aCartoonists$zUnited States$vBiography$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0$aAdult children of aging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0$aAging parents$xFamily relationships$zUnited States$vComic books, strips, etc.