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Making love, drugs, and...bug stew? Within the vein of The Cup Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's convincing memoir of a childhood put in with her dysfunctional counterculture family in the Canadian wilderness - a searing story of physical, psychological, and psychological survival. In the past due 1960s, operating the crest of the counterculture activity, Cea's family kept a comfortable living in California to live on from the land in the Canadian wilderness. But unlike most commune dwellers of that time period, the People weren't looking to build a new modern culture - they wished to escape civilization completely. Led by Cea's grandfather Dick, they lived a pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional life under a canvas tipi without working drinking water, electricity, or heating for the bitter winters. Living out her grandparents' dream with her teenage mom, Michelle, young Cea recognized little of the world beyond her forest. She put in her summers participating in 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 tourists, it appeared to be a mainly happy living. For Michelle, however, now long separated from Cea's father, there is one crucial aspect missing: a guy. When Cea was five, Michelle required her on the road with a fresh boyfriend. As the trio placed upon a series of ill-fated journeys, Cea commenced to question both her highly strange world and the hedonistic girl at the centre from it - questions that eventually changed into an all-consuming search for a more normal life. Finally, in her early on teens, Cea came to the realization she would have to make a choice as major as the one her grandparents once had in order to save herself. While a successful international modeling profession offered her a means from the wilderness, Cea uncovered that this " new world " was in its way daunting and filled with challenges. Including 24 personal black-and-white family photos, North of Normal is Cea's funny, surprising, heartbreaking, and triumphant story of self-discovery and approval, adversity, and durability that will leave no listener unmoved.
