Pleska, Cat,  1953- <br/><br/>
Riding on comets  a memoir / 
Cat Pleska. 
 - First edition. 
 - Morgantown :  Vandalia Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>IMAGES ... --  No Salt --  Trick or Treat --  A Tone --  Give Me My Hat --  Big Earl's --  A Brush with the Law --  In Mommaw's Kitchen --  AWAKENING ... --  What We Called Home --  From a Time Before --  Night Light --  Cicada Buzz --  AWARENESS ... --  I Spy --  Shelter --  Back Home --  Devil Faces --  Something Gathers 'Round Me --  House of Leaves --  Plunder --  REACTION ... --  Alarm Clock --  My Civic Duty --  The Nervous Hospital --  My Kingdom for a Horse --  Night on Cheat Mountain I --  Night on Cheat Mountain II --  CarniVAL --  War --  The Sailor man --  LOSS ... --  In the Cellar --  Reckoning --  Exception to the Rule --  Charmed --  I've Drawed up a Mite --  900 Degrees Celsius --  Twin Haloes --  The Phone Rings --  Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? --  We Shall Gather --  Riding on Comets --  Night on Cheat Mountain III --  Fall --  STRENGTH ... --  Liminal --  Dragon's Tale --  Epilogue --  Author Bio --  Book Discussion. 
<br/><br/> "Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781940425535 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pleska, Cat, 1953- --Family.<br/>Pleska, Cat, 1953- --Childhood and youth.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Working class families--West Virginia--Biography.<br/>Only child--Biography.<br/>Appalachians (People)--West Virginia--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F245  / .R535 2015