GOING INTO TOWN by Roz Chast
For native Brooklynite and quintessential New Yorker Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honeycombed streets, and “those West Side Story things ” (fire escapes). GOING INTO TOWN is part playful guide, part New York stories, and part love letter to the city, told through Chast’s laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons. Roz’s parents, featured prominently in her inimitable #1 New York Times -bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award- winning graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , make several appearances in these pages, including stories of going “into town”—as they called it—to see a musical, armed with food and warnings, and in the cover drawing of young Roz subway-bound with her mom.
Copyright 2017 Roz Chast. Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury.
ROZ CHAST GREW UP IN BROOKLYN. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than one thousand. She wrote and illustrated the #1 New York Times bestseller Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize winner and finalist for the National Book Award; What I Hate: From A to Z; and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left and Theories of Everything. rozchast.com
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