Название: Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Автор: Roz Chast
Издательство: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 1608198065
Год: 2014
Язык: английский
Страниц: 240
Формат: azw3
Размер: 131.31 MB

В своих первых мемуарах Роз Част пишет о теме старения родителей. Охватывая последние несколько лет их жизни и рассказывая через четырех-цветные рисунки, семейные фотографии и документы, а также через повествование, как со смехом, так и со слезами, эти мемуары являются одновременно утешением и комическим облегчением для любого, кто столкнулся в жизни с потерей престарелых родителей. Бестселлер «Нью-Йорк Таймс» №1.

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 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.

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.

An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.