Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

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4.7
6 reviews
Ebook
304
Pages
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

 From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won’t let go, and one woman’s attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apart

In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood—her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of thirteen to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea’s unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.

At the age of thirty-seven, Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a child—husband, young son, beautiful house, enviable career. But her carefully art-directed world is about to crumble around her. As she confronts the death of her still-young mother, the disintegration of her second marriage and the demise of her business, all within a few months, she finally faces the need to look at her past to make sense of her present.

The Globe and Mail says “Person’s best gifts as a writer are her memory, her knack for knowing when to dig down into the finer details of a scene, and when to pull back.” Nearly Normal chronicles the many stories Cea left untold but that needed telling. Settled into a new and much happier life after the release of her first book, she is nonetheless compelled to continue searching for answers about her enigmatic family. She discovers the value in the lessons they taught her, and the power of taking responsibility for her own choices.

 

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4.7
6 reviews
Lonna Serrin
April 26, 2019
This book showed the good and bad of life for Cea Person.
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Sarah Veronica Morton
July 10, 2017
Almost as good as North of normal
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Amanda Patricks
May 21, 2016
Awesome!
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About the author

CEA SUNRISE PERSON is now a happily married mother of three. She lives in Vancouver, BC, where she continues to tell her story through design for her graphic arts business, Life Story Creative (lifestorycreative.ca). She hates camping.

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