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Cartoonist Roz Chast’s illustrated memoir on the final years of her parents’ lives.
It’s no accident that most consumer ads are pitched to people in their 20s and 30s. For one thing, they are less likely to have gone through the transformative process of cleaning out their deceased parents’ stuff. Once you go through that, you can never look at YOUR stuff in the same way.
