{"product_id":"9781608198061","title":"Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her first memoir, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecartoonist 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, \u003ci\u003eCan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant\u003c\/i\u003e will show the full range of Roz Chast’s talent as cartoonist and storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chast, Roz","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Graphic Novel)","offer_id":44339150061792,"sku":"","price":19.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b33095b4-6f02-4953-a8c3-db5141775297.jpg?v=1699552116","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781608198061","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}