Chast, Roz. creator text biography comic strip nyu New York Bloomsbury 2014 monographic eng 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. The beginning of the end -- Return to the fold -- The elder lawyer -- Galapagos -- The fall -- Maimonides -- Sundowning -- The end of an era -- The move -- The old apartment -- The place -- The next step -- Kleenex abounding -- Postmortem -- Elizabeth, alone -- Bedtime stories -- Chrysalis -- The end. Roz Chast. A memoir. Chast, Roz Family Comic books, strips, etc Cartoonists United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels United States Wit and humor, Pictorial Comic books, strips, etc Tiras cómicas, historietas, etc Caricaturas Dibujos Técnica 20150700 NC 1429 C489c 2014 741.5/6973092 9781608198061 1608198065 150311 20230410124136.0 119178