Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2014)

Won: National Book Critics Circle Award, autobiography, 2014. Shortlisted: National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2014. Eight years after Fun Home reached the critics' autobiography shortlist, a graphic memoir won the prize outright, and it took the first Kirkus Prize for nonfiction as well. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast draws her aging parents' last years in their Brooklyn apartment, mixing cartoons, handwritten pages and photographs of the clutter they left behind. It is very funny and then, without warning, devastating. Anyone caring for an elderly parent will recognize the paperwork, the guilt and the arguments about moving.