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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

by Roz Chast

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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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