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"By turns grim and absurd, deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud
funny. Ms. Chast reminds us how deftly the graphic novel can
capture ordinary crises in ordinary American lives." - Michiko
Kakutani, New York Times
"A tour de force of dark humor and illuminating pathos about her
parents’ final years as only this quirky genius of pen and ink
could construe them." - Elle
"An achievement of dark humor that rings utterly true." -
Washington Post
"One of the major books of 2014 . . . Moving and bracingly candid
. . . This is, in its original and unexpected way, one of the
great autobiographical memoirs of our time." - Buffalo News
"Better than any book I know, this extraordinarily honest,
searing and hilarious graphic memoir captures (and helps relieve)
the unbelievable stress that results when the tables turn and
grown children are left taking care of their parents. . . [A]
remarkable, poignant memoir." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Very, very, very funny, in a way that a straight-out memoir
about the death of one’s elderly parents probably would not be .
. . Ambitious, raw and personal as anything she has produced." -
New York Times
"Devastatingly good . . . Anyone who has had Chast’s experience
will devour this book and cling to it for truth, humor,
understanding, and the futile wish that it could all be
different." - St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Gut-wrenching and laugh-aloud funny. I want to recommend it to
everyone I know who has elderly parents, or might have them
someday." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Joins Muriel Spark's Memento Mori, William Trevor's The Old
Boys, and Kingsley Amis's Ending Up in the competition for the
funniest book about old age I've ever read. It is also
heartbreaking." - Barnes & Noble Review
"Chast tackles those and difficult changes with just the
same humor and honesty as everything else. Readers who are
starting to transition from children to caretakers of their own
parents will find comfort in Chast’s work, and almost anyone can
appreciate the pleas to talk about something more pleasant with
your family." - Paste, 10 Comics to Help You Escape (or
Appreciate) Your Family this Holiday Season
"Revelatory… So many have faced (or will face) the situation that
the author details, but no one could render it like she does. A
top-notch graphic memoir that adds a whole new dimension to
readers’ appreciation of Chast and her work." - Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
"Chast is at the top of her candid form, delivering often funny,
trenchant, and frequently painful revelations -- about human
behavior, about herself -- on every page." - David Small, author
of Stitches
"Never has the abyss of dread and grief been plumbed to such
incandescently hilarious effect. The lines between laughter and
hysteria, despair and rage, love and guilt, are quavery indeed,
and no one draws them more honestly, more . . . unscrimpingly,
than Roz Chast." - Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
"Roz Chast squeezes more existential pain out of baffled people
in cheap clothing sitting around on living-room sofas with
antimacassar doilies in crummy apartments than Dostoevsky got out
of all of Russia’s dark despair. This is a great book in the
annals of human suffering, cleverly disguised as fun." - Bruce
McCall, author of Bruce McCall's Zany Afternoons
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About the Author
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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 the national bestseller Going
into Town, What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her
own cartoons The Party After You Left and Theories of Everything.
She is the editor of The Best American Comics 2016 and the
illustrator of Calvin Trillin's No Fair! No Fair! and Daniel
Menaker's The African Svelte, all published in Fall 2016. She was
awarded the Harvey Award Hall of Fame Award.
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