amanda_rozema's review
3.0
een ontroerende grafische roman over ouder worden en hoe je afscheid moet nemen van je ouders. ook laat het zien wat voor stress, frustratie en geregel het met zich mee kan brengen.
lornarei's review
4.0
Okay, so maybe today wasn't the best day to read this book, as the first anniversary of my dad's death is tomorrow - but it's due at the library and once I started looking at it, I wanted to see it through. What an amazing book! Although I am not an only child, not the oldest and not especially close by, I could identify with so much of the book. She spans every emotion and is brutally honest, which I guess some reviewers haven't cared for, but it is what it is. A great combination of grief, anger, love and humor. What stage of death IS "eat tuna sandwich"??
kricketa's review
4.0
a really beautiful, funny and honest book about the last years roz chast spent with her elderly parents. this definitely rang true to what i saw/see happening with my father's parents these past few years. raises a lot of good questions about quality of life for the elderly.
lexiww's review
4.0
A marvelously sad and smart cautionary tale/ playbook of fumbling through the care for aging parents.
stairclimber's review
5.0
I could have written this book! Actually any woman who is 55+ years old with aging parents could have written this book. However Roz Chast wrote it beautifully!!!
A non-fiction graphic novel describing her journey with caring for her aging parents. The guilt, the denial, the finances, the battling of wills and the reversal of roles.
All hauntingly familiar to me. I could have written this book - but I'm to busy living it.
Highly recommended!!!
A non-fiction graphic novel describing her journey with caring for her aging parents. The guilt, the denial, the finances, the battling of wills and the reversal of roles.
All hauntingly familiar to me. I could have written this book - but I'm to busy living it.
Highly recommended!!!
meera01's review
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
I've always been partial to graphic memoirs, and this was no different. This memoir felt like mostly an honest sharing of her experiences with her aging parents. This made you think about topics that you might not want to think about. But I also felt I had questions about the author's life and the parents that were left unanswered or not given explanations.
flobeulah's review
3.0
it's as realistic as it gets.
It scares you in a way that theoretically is so easy to deal with life events and you would like to think of yourself better than that. But you don't know until you get there
It scares you in a way that theoretically is so easy to deal with life events and you would like to think of yourself better than that. But you don't know until you get there