Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? is a landmark graphic memoir from Bloomsbury, first published in 2014 and still in print. In a single, acclaimed volume, the longtime New Yorker cartoonist turns her wry, anxious eye to the universal ordeal of caring for aging parents, chronicling her own family’s final years with unflinching honesty and dark humor. It’s a deeply personal, essential work that reshaped how comics can address mortality and family—a funny, painful, and ultimately tender story that resonates with anyone who has faced the same hard conversations.