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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast

Start date: December 11, 2016

Finish date: January 11, 2017

Why we're reading this: Come to Village Inn Pizza (8050 Lincoln Ave.) in Skokie to discuss the January selection for LitLounge. T…more
[close] Come to Village Inn Pizza (8050 Lincoln Ave.) in Skokie to discuss the January selection for LitLounge. The group will meet on January 11th at 7:30PM.

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You may remember Roz Chast’s anxious and hilarious humor from The New Yorker, for which she has been creating cartoons for many years now. In Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant, a narrative graphic novel, Chast continues to entertain and disturb us by describing the story of her parents’ declining years and their deaths.

Chast’s parents were not easy to live with. Her mother was an overbearing, born-to-lead assistant principal and her father was a meek and pathologically fearful teacher ...more

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