There is a distinct sense of place throughout Chast’s memoir, beginning with a description of her parents’ Brooklyn neighborhood (p. This is a great book in the annals of human suffering, cleverly disguised as fun.” – Bruce McCall, author of Bruce McCall's Zany Afternoons, “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. unscrimpingly, than Roz Chast.” – Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, The lines between laughter and hysteria, despair and rage, love and guilt, are quavery indeed, and no one draws them more honestly, more. “Never has the abyss of dread and grief been plumbed to such incandescently hilarious effect. “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, A top-notch graphic memoir that adds a whole new dimension to readers' appreciation of Chast and her work.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Revelatory… So many have faced (or will face) the situation that the author details, but no one could render it like she does. It is also heartbreaking.” – Barnes & Noble Review “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. I want to recommend it to everyone I know who has elderly parents, or might have them someday.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 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. Ambitious, raw and personal as anything she has produced.” – New York Times “Very, very, very funny, in a way that a straight-out memoir about the death of one's elderly parents probably would not be. remarkable, poignant memoir.” – San Francisco Chronicle “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. This is, in its original and unexpected way, one of the great autobiographical memoirs of our time.” – Buffalo News
“An achievement of dark humor that rings utterly true.” – Washington Post “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 Chast reminds us how deftly the graphic novel can capture ordinary crises in ordinary American lives.” – Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, “By turns grim and absurd, deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.
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