Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant is the 2019 Peoria Reads selection. Peoria Reads! is a project instituted and led by Common Place and the Peoria Public Library. You can find more information at http://www.peoriareads.com.

In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.