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Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir is Roz Chast’s graphic memoir about the final years of her elderly parents, especially the emotional, practical, and moral complications that arise as independence gives way to dependency. Published in 2014, the book blends cartoons, family photographs, documents, and prose to show how caregiving reshapes adult children and forces families to confront subjects they have long avoided, including decline, death, money, and legal planning. Chast draws on her own experience as an only child trying to manage her parents’ transition from their Brooklyn home into assisted living, while also processing her own responses of denial, guilt, frustration, and love. The book is both deeply personal and broadly relatable because it treats elder care not as a private oddity, but as a common rite of passage for many families. Its unusual form allows it to be funny without minimizing pain, and serious without becoming abstract or clinical.