title: North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
author:  Cea Sunrise Person 
description: 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, <em>North of Normal</em>, retraces her unique path. (<em>Cosmopolitan</em>)<br /><br />Her account of this Alice-in-Wonderland life is rendered withgrace, and without self-pity. (<em>Elle</em>)<br /><br /><em>North of Normal</em> contains so many jaw-dropping scenes it makes Jeannette Walls childhood (<em>The Glass Castle</em>) look almost conventional.... [it] illuminate[s] family relationships that juxtapose love with torment, and illustrate the power of forgiveness. (<em>Toronto Star</em>)<br /><br />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, Persons lucid memories present a stirring scrapbook. (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>)<br /><br />Accounts of early childhood are trickytoo many details and its impossible to trust the writers memorybut Person navigates the challenge with real grace. Her clear-eyed memoir captures her familys quest and its collapse without bitterness.  (<em>Boston Globe</em>)
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  Table Contents
  Chapter One
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