Revenge of the Paste Eaters Memoirs of a

An ironic, funny, moving and honest collection of non-fiction nuggets from plus-sized smart mouth Cheryl Peck. Autobiographical, self-deprecating and perfecly honest, Peck's bite-sized memoirs explore the unvarnished truth about her childhood as a junior school paste eater, being a gay woman in America's heartland and trying, with varying degrees of success, to understand her relatives, the world and of course herself.

Cheryl Peck lives with her cat, Babycakes, in Three Rivers, Michigan, where she does not grow tomatoes and rarely sits in lawn chairs. Cheryl originally self-published the book for her family and friends through a friend's vermicomposting and publishing company. This way if the book didn't sell, she could always use it for worm bedding.

introduction

xiii

revenge of the paste eaters

1

(8)

scenes from a road trip

9

(17)

waiting

26

(4)

the vole hole

30

(3)

a gathering of porcupines

33

(8)

the stick incident and more

41

(11)

self-confidence

52

(1)

shopping

53

(8)

the pagoda fund

61

(6)

nesting in dense foliage

67

(5)

one way to publish a book

72

(7)

bonding

79

(5)

gramma lucille

84

(7)

fatso

91

(4)

the enchantment factor

95

(4)

tin-foiled again

99

(4)

training day

103

(1)

the epidemic

104

(7)

sperm

111

(4)

my mentor

115

(4)

luna

119

(2)

dragonflies

121

(4)

fat girls and estrogen patches

125

(5)

puppy love

130

(3)

the tyranny of trees

133

(6)

how i came out

139

(5)

walking home

144

(2)

give me a head with hair . . .

146

(5)

after the stroke

151

(2)

crackers

153

(3)

ferron

156

(4)

guitar lessons

160

(6)

limping toward pro-earth

166

(4)

jasmine

170

(3)

penis envy

173

(4)

the rose-colored ice

177

(3)

lines in the sand

180

(4)

mine

184

(4)

moats

188

(1)

welcome

189

(4)

the hysterical alarm clock

193

(5)

professionalism

198

(1)

my valentine: the beginning

199

(3)

living well

202

(3)

everything i know about cars

205

(9)

153,000 miles

214

(1)

where the heart is

215

(5)

silly rabbit

220

(6)

the secret

226

(8)

chin hair

234

(2)

random dawnings

236

(4)

victrola blues

240

(6)

winter kill

246

(1)

boxes in the attic

247

(6)

doorknob boxing

253

(7)

trans-scendental meditation

260

(7)

coyote

267

(2)

tomboy

269

(4)

cat in a cool mesh stroller

273

(4)

cheating death

277

(1)

the kitten

278

(6)

tyger, tyger burning bright

284

(4)

insurance

288

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