Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
โ Scribed by Person, Cea Sunrise
- Book ID
- 109807796
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781443449076
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace and candour about her unconventional childhoodโher 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 toldโbut 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 childโhusband, 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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