Compared favourably to the work of Alison Bechdel and Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer's exquisite and tender recollections of her parents' struggle with old age is re-issued in a paperback edition. Set in Los Angeles in the early '90s, Parker recalls the inexorable decline of her parents' health against a backdrop of wider social unrest. Their affectionate bickering, black humour and tender resignation to fading youth are captured perceptively and truthfully by Farmer, in what is widely regarded as o ...