The cover to Special Exits by Joyce Farmer, featuring a quote from R. Crumb reading, "One of the best long-narrative comics I've ever read, right up there with Maus... I actually found myself moved to tears." The cover illustration features an old man with a cat on his lap looking toward a door. Through the door, a grim reaper padding a boat can be seen.
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Joyce Farmer

Special Exits

On sale date: August 3, 2014

In this semi-autobiographic novel, which chronicles the decline in health and welfare of an older couple, Joyce Farmer makes the case for elder care reform; now in paperback.

In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer’s memoir chronicles the decline of the author’s parents’ health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel and ailing Lars are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King riots), Farmer details the slow, inexorable decline in Lars’ and Rachel’s health, and perfectly captures the timbre of the exchanges between a long-married couple: the affectionate bickering; their gallows humor; their querulousness as their bodies break down.

Specs

Pages
208
Format
Paperback / Softback
Color
Black and white
Dimensions
7.4" × 10"
ISBN-13
9781606997604
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