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Riding on Comets: A Memoir by Cat Pleska (review)

Riding on Comets: A Memoir by Cat Pleska (review) and the music of Bob Marley, played when he and his father are in the car and are thus between disasters. Fury at his father’s exploitation of him after the jacket disappears, probably in a drug trade, finally gives Mish the power of comprehensible speech, which the loser father fears. Because even a three-year-old can see the world more clearly than a substance-abusing man who is looking through a pair of contact lenses he stole from his own mother. The original voice that astonished readers in Pancake’s first collection, Given Ground, is here more refined, surer, and even more distinctive. Nobody else has this eye for the dark places where hard truths hide. Nobody else could have written these eleven stories. Cat Pleska. Riding on Comets: A Memoir. Morgantown, W.Va.: Vandalia Press, 2015. 236 pages. Softcover. $16.99. Reviewed by Donna M. Crow If Cat Pleska is riding on comets, her family members are the constellations she observes on her journey. Descriptions of her father’s drinking, her mother’s depression, hospitalization and electroshock therapy, are juxtaposed against Christmas memories, playing I Spy with Mom, learning about the stars with her dad, and listening to stories at the heels of her grandparents, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Riding on Comets: A Memoir by Cat Pleska (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 43 (3) – Nov 15, 2015

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © Berea College
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Abstract

and the music of Bob Marley, played when he and his father are in the car and are thus between disasters. Fury at his father’s exploitation of him after the jacket disappears, probably in a drug trade, finally gives Mish the power of comprehensible speech, which the loser father fears. Because even a three-year-old can see the world more clearly than a substance-abusing man who is looking through a pair of contact lenses he stole from his own mother. The original voice that astonished readers in Pancake’s first collection, Given Ground, is here more refined, surer, and even more distinctive. Nobody else has this eye for the dark places where hard truths hide. Nobody else could have written these eleven stories. Cat Pleska. Riding on Comets: A Memoir. Morgantown, W.Va.: Vandalia Press, 2015. 236 pages. Softcover. $16.99. Reviewed by Donna M. Crow If Cat Pleska is riding on comets, her family members are the constellations she observes on her journey. Descriptions of her father’s drinking, her mother’s depression, hospitalization and electroshock therapy, are juxtaposed against Christmas memories, playing I Spy with Mom, learning about the stars with her dad, and listening to stories at the heels of her grandparents,

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 15, 2015

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