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Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

โœ Scribed by Person, Cea Sunrise


Book ID
109807796
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781443449076

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โœฆ Synopsis


In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace and candour about her unconventional childhoodโ€”her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family; the numerous misadventures she survived with her mother and her mother's boyfriends; and the bold escape Cea made from her family at the age of thirteen through a modelling career. After putting such a unique life on paper, one would expect Cea's tale to be all toldโ€”but that's far from the case.

At the age of thirty-seven, Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a childโ€”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 just a few months, she finally faces the need to look at her past to make sense of her...


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