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I just finished reading Roz Chast’s graphic memoir Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? I have been reading Chast’s cartoons for years, so I found this account of her parents last years a surprisingly painful and sometimes brutally honest story.  Not that it wasn’t funny at times, but besides  the issues of physical deteriation, there were also Chast’s lifelong emotional issues with her mother, issues that were never resolved.  All and all, it’s a worthwhile book reminding us of the need to deal with the "unpleasant."  And finnaly Chast’s funny little drawings give the book a mood not found in most memoirs.