The Night of the Comet is in the Required Reading section of today’s New York Post. Thank you, Billy Heller.
Required Reading
by BILLY HELLER
Last Updated: 11:33 PM, August 17, 2013
Posted: 10:16 PM, August 17, 2013
The Night of the Comet
by George Bishop (Random House)
The comet in question is Kohoutek, which for people coming of age in the 1970s caused some hoopla. In Bishop’s funny and endearing follow-up to his novel “Letter to My Daughter,” Alan Broussard Jr. gets a telescope for his 14th birthday from his amateur astronomer dad, a science teacher at the high school in their Louisiana bayou town. But Junior is less interested in Kohoutek than in lovely Gabriella Martello, whose family lives in a mansion within telescope view — with a lifestyle that catches the attention of Junior’s mom.