Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

There are many how-to books on caring for aging adults, but sometimes a book shows up that allows us to indulge our inner adult child. New York City–based cartoonist/author Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2014) is a graphic novel memoir of the last three years of her parents’ lives as they (and she) declined in mind and function (New Yorker, Mar. 2, 2014, http://bit.ly/2qfroku). And she is a most unlikely superhero.