In this candid and darkly humorous memoir, cartoonist Roz Chast opens up about the difficult journey of caring for her aging parents. As both a daughter and a de facto caretaker, she navigates the emotional landscape of watching her once-independent parents decline. The book spans the later years of their lives, incorporating vibrant cartoons, family photos, and genuine, heartfelt narrative. It is a story of role reversal – the child becomes the parent – and a tale of love and frustration as Roz manages the demands of her mother's overpowering personality and her father's descent into dementia. This memoir is at once a source of comic relief and an intimate exploration of the universal experience of loss, offering both a portrait of two quirky, complex individuals at the end of their lives and the challenges faced by the adult child left behind to pick up the pieces.