TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pleska,Cat
TI  - Riding on comets: a memoir 
SN  - 9781940425535
AV  - F245 .R535 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Morgantown
PB  - Vandalia Press
KW  - Pleska, Cat,
KW  - Working class families
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Only child
KW  - Appalachians (People)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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