Breakfast On Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto resists easy categorization. It is a picaresque road novel, a queer manifesto, a tragicomedy, and a political thriller all at once. Patrick McCabe’s genius is to show that fantasy is not the opposite of reality, but the filter through which reality becomes bearable. Pussy Braden is a fool, a saint, a clown, and a prophet. In a culture obsessed with origins (Catholic or Protestant, legitimate or bastard), she remains proudly synthetic, a creature of pop songs and magazines.