EDH - Book Talk - Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Graphic Memoir by Roz Chast
Wednesday, Mar. 20, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
* This Book Talk is part of our National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read programming!
We invite readers to explore Chast's memoir with us. At each of the six El Dorado County Library locations, we'll use a set of questions to guide our discussion, looking at the way Chast interweaves her parents' experiences growing up, how those shaped thier adult relationships, and Chast's own conflicted emotions in becoming their caregiver. But we'll also follow your lead and let the conversation flow!
AFTER REGISTERING FOR THIS BOOK TALK AT THE EL DORADO HILLS LIBRARY YOU CAN PICK UP A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK AT THE FRONT DESK OF THE LIBRARY! Copies are available while supplies last.
The NEA describes Chast's memoir as follows:
"Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, written by Roz Chast, a longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, 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). “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). “I want to recommend it to everyone I know who has elderly parents, or might have them someday" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)."
Sponsored by Friends of the El Dorado Hill Library.
We invite readers to explore Chast's memoir with us. At each of the six El Dorado County Library locations, we'll use a set of questions to guide our discussion, looking at the way Chast interweaves her parents' experiences growing up, how those shaped thier adult relationships, and Chast's own conflicted emotions in becoming their caregiver. But we'll also follow your lead and let the conversation flow!
AFTER REGISTERING FOR THIS BOOK TALK AT THE EL DORADO HILLS LIBRARY YOU CAN PICK UP A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK AT THE FRONT DESK OF THE LIBRARY! Copies are available while supplies last.
The NEA describes Chast's memoir as follows:
"Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, written by Roz Chast, a longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, 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). “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). “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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