{"product_id":"north-of-normal-a-memoir-of-my-wilderness-childhood-my-unusual-family-and-how-i-survived-both-isbn-9780062289865","title":"North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both","description":"\u003cp\u003eSex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWild,\u003c\/em\u003e Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in the Canadian wilderness. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren’t trying to build a new society—they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea’s grandfather Dick, they lived a pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional life under a canvas tipi without running water, electricity, or heat for the bitter winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiving out her grandparents’ dream with her teenage mother Michelle, young Cea knew little of the world beyond her forest. She spent her summers playing nude in the meadow and her winters snowshoeing behind the grandfather she idolized. Despite fierce storms, food shortages, and the occasional drug-and-sex-infused party for visitors, it seemed to be a mostly happy existence. For Michelle, however, now long separated from Cea’s father, there was one crucial element missing: a man. When Cea was five, Michelle took her on the road with a new boyfriend. As the trio set upon a series of ill-fated adventures, Cea began to question both her highly unusual world and the hedonistic woman at the centre of it—questions that eventually evolved into an all-consuming search for a more normal life. Finally, in her early teens, Cea realized she would have to make a choice as drastic as the one her grandparents once had in order to save herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile a successful international modeling career offered her a way out of the wilderness, Cea discovered that this new world was in its own way daunting and full of challenges. Containing twenty-four intimate black-and-white family photos, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e is Cea’s funny, shocking, heartbreaking, and triumphant tale of self-discovery and acceptance, adversity, and strength that will leave no reader unmoved.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's subversive family fled to the Canadian wilderness to grow pot, embrace free love, and live off the land. A riveting memoir of growing up off the grid amid multiple generations of dysfunction, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles one woman's journey to reclaim her life on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetermined to abandon civilization for a hand-to-mouth existence in the wild, Cea Sunrise Person's charismatic grandfather Papa Dick uproots the Person clan from suburban California to the forests of Canada when she is just a baby. Together with her teenage mother, Michelle—her father long gone—Cea will spend the next decade of her life living in and out of canvas tipis with neither electricity nor running water, at the mercy of fierce storms, food shortages, and an array of grown-ups more interested in having a groovy time than in parenting a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young girl who knows no other world, Cea is happy enough playing in the meadows and snowshoeing behind the grandfather she idolizes. But for Michelle, one crucial element is missing: a man. When Michelle strikes out to look for love, spinning from one boyfriend to the next, Cea is forced along for the ride—and into a harsh awakening. Consumed by a desire for a more normal life, she begins to question both her highly unusual world and the hedonistic woman at its center. But the escape she finds, a career as an internationally successful model, brings its own challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShocking, heartbreaking, yet often funny, and infused with warmth toward her damaged family, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e is Person's singular story of her desire to live life on her own terms—no matter what it takes. Her journey of self-discovery and acceptance, which comes full circle after she has children of her own, is profoundly moving. Eloquently navigating the minefields of regret, longing, and family, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the strength we all carry within us to shape our own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“[An] affecting memoir.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e contains so many jaw-dropping scenes it makes Jeannette Walls’ childhood (\u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e) look almost conventional.... [it] illuminate[s] family relationships that juxtapose love with torment, and illustrate the power of forgiveness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Accounts of early childhood are tricky—too many details and it’s impossible to trust the writer’s memory—but Person navigates the challenge with real grace. Her clear-eyed memoir captures her family’s quest and its collapse without bitterness. Despite her family’s many (many!) instances of lousy judgment, Person writes lovingly that, ‘if nothing else, they were good at seeing the humor in their predicaments.’ ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Accounts of early childhood are tricky—too many details and it’s impossible to trust the writer’s memory—but Person navigates the challenge with real grace. Her clear-eyed memoir captures her family’s quest and its collapse without bitterness. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Think your family is weird? Cea Sunrise Person slept in a tepee in the Canadian Rockies for most of her childhood, then by age 15 was modeling in Paris. Her memoir, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, retraces her unique path.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A former international model charts her unconventional childhood in the 1960s with a hippie-ish family.…Written with stylistic clarity and studded with family photos, Person’s lucid memories present a stirring scrapbook.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Warmly told with a strong, clear and funny voice, peppered with dramatic action, and full of quirky characters...equal parts harrowing and convivial.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her account of this Alice-in-Wonderland life is rendered with…grace, and without self-pity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888731451621,"sku":"NP9780062289865","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062289865.jpg?v=1730229717","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/north-of-normal-a-memoir-of-my-wilderness-childhood-my-unusual-family-and-how-i-survived-both-isbn-9780062289865","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}