The NEA Big Read: Wichita will next read Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by cartoonist Roz Chast, beginning March 2023.

A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Books for a Better Life Award, the memoir tells the story of Chast’s parents’ final years through cartoons, family photos, found documents, and narrative prose. “So many have faced (or will face) the situation that the author details, but no one could render it like she does” (Kirkus).