Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Is a memoir that tells the story of Chast’s parents’ final years through cartoons, family photos, found documents, and narrative prose.
This event is ideal for students in Health Professions, Social Work, Art, Graphic Design, Communication, Pre-Med, English, Human Resources, Psychology, Sociology, Honors College
Friday April 14th
11:00am – Noon
CAC Theatre
Free Pizza!
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Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, is a “tour de force” (Elle), “remarkable” (San Francisco Chronicle), “revelatory” (Kirkus), “deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny” (New York Times), and “one of the great autobiographical memoirs of our time" (Buffalo News). A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kirkus Prize, the National
Book Critics Circle Award, and the Books for a Better Life Award, the memoir tells
the story of Chast’s parents’ final years through cartoons, family photos, found documents,
and narrative prose. “So many have faced (or will face) the situation that the author
details, but no one could render it like she does” (Kirkus). “I want to recommend it to everyone I know who has elderly parents or might have
them someday" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
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