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This event is co-sponsored by Wichita State University ~ Public Health Sciences, Wichita Public Library Foundation, and Friends of the Wichita Public Library.
April 15th
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Wichita State University Hughes Metroplex
5015 E. 29th St. N.
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?, a graphic memoir that tells the story of Chast’s parents’ final years through cartoons, family photos, found documents, and narrative prose.
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).