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

by Roz Chast

Book Overview

#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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608198065
• ISBN13: 9781608198061
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

I read this entire book in a 2 hour sitting

And I was so moved.

This book says it all- every funny, sad and true thing about ageing parents

If you and your parents live long enough (in the absence of radical medical advancements), you will experience many, if not all, of the honest, funny, and sad things immortalized by Roz Chast in the brilliant, humorous, illustrated book.

Helping me through...

Anyone with aging parents knows how difficult it can be to witness. Roz Chast nails ALL the feelings.