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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
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Roz Chast writes a memoir of taking care of her elderly parents, from independent living to assisted living to death. She tells it in passages, photographs and cartoons. Roz handles the stress with love and humor. The part that helped me the most is cleaning out her parents's apartment, because we (my husband and me) are dealing with a similar situation. This is an excellent book for helping the reader to cope with taking care of elderly parents. It can extend to taking care of grandparents too.
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The author tells the story of her aging parent's decline and eventual death in hospice in a graphic memoir form that is both humorous and heartbreakingly poignant. She is unflinchingly honest in describing the harsh realities of navigating the caregiver role: the physical and mental decline of the very old (over 90), the wrenching angst-producing decisions she had to make, and the expense and money worries, as well as the humor that can be found in some of the situations and conversations she ha
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Thank you Roz Chast for telling your story! I'm not sure why it took me so long to dig into Chast's memoir of her relationship with her parents, especially dealing with them in their old age. I have every other book she's published and eagerly await her cartoons in each week's New Yorker!
Chast tells her family story through words and illustrations with (dark) humor and poignancy. She captures perfectly the mental, emotional, physical and logistical challenges of caring for aging parents in her t ...more
Chast tells her family story through words and illustrations with (dark) humor and poignancy. She captures perfectly the mental, emotional, physical and logistical challenges of caring for aging parents in her t ...more
Brilliant. Honest. Talented. Witty and Sharp. This graphic novel is a guidestone for everyone who is/has gone through the process of a parent’s (or any close one’s) death. Also a reflective tone of thinking about ones own process. A really great book putting much into perspective. A quick, enjoyable read despite the topic!
You have found the source of the River Ebay. (stuff!)
They weren't that brief. (visits)
When they got back, my father remembered NOTHING. (final Israel trip)
I wish that, at the e ...more
You have found the source of the River Ebay. (stuff!)
They weren't that brief. (visits)
When they got back, my father remembered NOTHING. (final Israel trip)
I wish that, at the e ...more
This is a memoir done in the form of a graphic novel. The author describes her complicated relationship with her parents and how she copes with her parent's aging and eventual death.
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An almost painfully honest graphic memoir about dealing with the aging and death of parents. Chast addresses the humor and the difficult relationships and the resentment unflinchingly, and it becomes a poignant and heartfelt story that made me remember that someday, most of us will have to deal with this for ourselves and our loved ones.
Roz Chast's graphic memoir Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? is a brutally honest description of her struggle with aging parents and their subsequent deaths, a struggle that many of us would likely recognize, empathize with, and profit from.
Her struggle was more complicated than typical American avoidance of death talks, as Chast was ambivalent about her relationship with her mother, who was domineering, left little room for two perspectives, and was frankly difficult. Although she a ...more
Her struggle was more complicated than typical American avoidance of death talks, as Chast was ambivalent about her relationship with her mother, who was domineering, left little room for two perspectives, and was frankly difficult. Although she a ...more
The raison d'être of this memoir-through-cartoons is: when life gets rough, confusing and it's hard to deal - laughing makes it feel a little easier. Roz Chast's book is like a balm. A balm for elder care that's not always as blissful or as serious, as it's depicted in the AARP magazine.
Tears. How could Roz Chast's experience of caring for and loosing her parents be so different in the details and SO exactly the same as my own experience? A very touching memoir! This book was like a comforting b ...more
Tears. How could Roz Chast's experience of caring for and loosing her parents be so different in the details and SO exactly the same as my own experience? A very touching memoir! This book was like a comforting b ...more
This was such a slow, depressing ride. I wish it was a bit shorter. This is a realistic representation of taking care of adult parents. So depressing, but necessary.
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