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SUMMARY:Let's Talk About It
DESCRIPTION:Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast\n\nA b
 ook discussion series moderated by Annaliese Jakimides. This year's series
  focuses on select National Book Award winners. To obtain a copy please co
 ntact the library desk. This program is free and all are welcome.\n\nIn he
 r first memoir\, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit 
 to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their li
 ves 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.\n\nWhile the particulars are Chast-ian in their 
 idiosyncrasies--an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for s
 tability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal moth
 er whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades--the themes
  are universal: adult children accepting a parental role\; aging and unsta
 ble parents leaving a family home for an institution\; dealing with uncomf
 ortable physical intimacies\; and hiring strangers to provide the most per
 sonal care.\n\nAn amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only c
 hild coping as best she can\, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant 
 shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.\
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