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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Memoir / Graphic Novel
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
by Roz Chast
—· 228 p· 2014
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Overview
About
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 Eliza…
Pages
228
Bloomsbury
Linguistic complexity
2/5
Straightforward
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth
10
Visual Storytelling
10
Family Caregiving Insight
10
Narration
9
Pacing
8
Prose
7
Plot twists
2
Worldbuilding
1
My journey
My experience
private
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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 Eliza…
Pages
228
Bloomsbury
Linguistic complexity
2/5
Straightforward
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
—
Emotional depth
10
Visual Storytelling
10
Family Caregiving Insight
10
Narration
9
Pacing
8
Prose
7
Plot twists
2
Worldbuilding
1
My journey
Status
Unread
Started
DNF
Finished
My rating
Burndown
Reading days
Notes
your reading journal
Books like Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?