Title: Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
Author: Roz Chast
Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 240
Roz Chast joins the ranks of those who demonstrate the capacity of cartoons and graphic memoirs or novels to provide a sophisticated, poignant story.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?chronicles the decline and death of Chast's parents. For anyone who has been through this or is close enough to experience fearful anticipation of the lead-up, loss, and aftermath, this anxious, ruminative, funny, freaked-out, overburdened account will feel by turns familiar, squirmily horrible, and perhaps, ultimately reassuring in the existential companionship it provides.
It's probably too much for someone with a very recent loss, but captures well the concern, ambivalence, relief, loss, and broad spectrum of this particular grief process. And it is funny, though sometimes more grimly absurd than slapstick.
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