A review by etienne02
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast

5.0

A graphic memoirs, not something we often see. I enjoy , well enjoy might be the wrong worth, I like it way more than I thought I would. The author talk about a specific part of her life, something that a lot of us will live through, the time when our parents become older, fragile, senile and die. I'm still a bit young for living through that, but my father is 66 and having a serious lungs condition in time of Covid, make his life highly risky, so I have thought about his death and that particular topic.

This book mixed a lot of thing to perfection, very emotional moments with lighter ones, funny humor with tragic events, some pages more cartoonist classic strips, others almost full of texts. All of it contribute to deliver a strong book, very personal, but also kind of general since old age being old age, it is always, more or less, the same.

This a book that everyone should read in their life time, maybe not anywhere in their life, but it will have a time and a place, somewhere, sometime, in everyone life where this book will be helpful.