ISBN:
9781608198061
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9781632861016
Language:
English
Pages:
228 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
Year of publication:
2016
DDC:
741.5973
Keywords:
Chast, Roz Comic books, strips, etc Family
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Cartoonists Biography
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Comic books, strips, etc
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Adult children of aging parents Comic books, strips, etc Family relationships
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Aging parents Comic books, strips, etc Family relationships
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Adult children of aging parents Biography
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Caregivers Biography
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Dementia Comic books, strips, etc Patients
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Family relationships
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Aging parents Comic books, strips, etc Care
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Aged Comic books, strips, etc
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Graphic novels
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Wit and humor, Pictorial
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Comic books, strips, etc
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Graphic novels
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Comic
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Comic
Abstract:
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, 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. When 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. While 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
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