Riding on Comets: A Memoir

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.

Author: Cat Pleska
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Published: 05/01/2015
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9781940425511
ISBN10: 1940425514
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | United States | State & Local | General

About the Author

Cat Pleska is a seventh generation West Virginian, and she is a writer, editor, educator, publisher, and storyteller. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She is an essayist for West Virginia Public Radio and a book reviewer for the Charleston Gazette. She coedited the anthology Fed from the Blade: Tales and Poems from the Mountains. Pleska has been published in literary magazines and newspapers throughout the Appalachian region. She lives in Scott Depot, West Virginia, with her husband, Dan, one dog, four cats, and with a daughter, Katie, in nearby St. Albans.