{"product_id":"nearly-normal-surviving-the-wilderness-my-family-and-myself-isbn-9781443452694","title":"Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eNorth of Normal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eCea 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, \u003cem\u003eNearly Normal\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the many ways that Cea’s unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e says “\u003c\/em\u003ePerson’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.” \u003cem\u003eNearly Normal \u003c\/em\u003echronicles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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“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“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\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“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“\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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888898666725,"sku":"NP9781443452694","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781443452694.jpg?v=1730230053","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/nearly-normal-surviving-the-wilderness-my-family-and-myself-isbn-9781443452694","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}