Roz Chast’s drawing WHO CARES? and my novel WHO CARES? have little in common (aside from humor and pathos). Yet, as a Chast devotee (my refrigerator door is a gallery of her work), I’m thrilled by the coincidence. Chast’s cartoon, featuring one of her signature characters, appears in the September 22, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. My book, about Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die,” comes out on December 02, 2025. Read more about the book Who Cares? in NOVELS.

Dear Roz, I care!

A plea for aging with dignity