About the Book
Very personal and at times heartbreaking, this book runs the gamut from comedic to tear-jerking, at times both funny and disturbing.”From a childhood packed with hideous, exploitative adults into an adolescence that sometimes reads like an encyclopedia of self-harm, Cat frankly exposes her frequently harrowing story. Evolving from coping through destructive self-hatred—eating disorders, sex, and myriad drugs—Cat slowly works toward self-acceptance and love through rock ‘n roll, the love and trust of her ever-patient and affectionate cat George, and a supportive community in her adopted home of Oakland. Cat’s journey towards peace, personal understanding, and self-approval—in a California landscape where food to nourish your pain is far more abundant than medicine is to heal it—is occasionally disconcerting, sometimes funny, and ultimately epic.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Entertainment
- Additional Categories Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 232 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9780464096818
- Publish Date: Jul 22, 2019
- Language English
- Keywords recovery
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About the Creator
mcwelsh
Oakland
I am M.C. Welsh, born in 1973 in Ventura, California. I won my first short story award my senior year in high school. After being adopted by a bunch of skate punks in Goleta, I graduated with high honors and a dual degree in Women’s Studies & Creative Writing in 1996. In the dark years, the Los Angeles years, I got married and divorced, bought and short sold a condo. I moved to Oakland in 2012 to start writing again, step into myself and bloom. Still working on that last bit…