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b'[Podcast audio below.] Roz Chast is best known for her New Yorker comics\\u2014colorful and witty depictions of everyday humiliations and grievances. Often those come at the hands of the people closest to her: family members. In Chast\\u2019s recent book, a graphic memoir called Can\\u2019t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? that has rightfully earned a place on many annual lists of the year\\u2019s best new non-fiction, she tells the story of her parents. In particular, she looks back at how, as an only child, she dealt with their steep decline at the end of their lives\\u2014with love and sadness, but also with frustration and guilt. It\\u2019s a poignant and often unexpectedly hilarious account and one that...

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