North of Normal

North of Normal

Published:
2014-06-24
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ISBN:
9780062289889
Meeting:
FBC Recommended R2.034
Pages:
352
File size (e-book):
3.6 MB
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Book Availability:
available
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no
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enabled

Description:

Caught up in the counterculture movement of the late 1960s, Cea Person's grandfather traded the suburban comforts of California for a pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional life under a canvas tipi in the Canadian wilderness.

As a child, Cea knew little about the world beyond her eccentric, hand-to-mouth existence, but her teenage mother, Michelle, found something lacking: a man.  With Cea in tow, she hits the road for an insane journey full of ill-fated adventures and the company of spectacularly unsuitable men.

Craving stability and safety, all Cea wants is to be normal.  Left to practically raise herself, she promises to find a different life from her usual and dysfunctional upbringing.  Determined and resilient, Cea reinvents herself through her successful international modelling career, but her new life brings its own challenges.

Warm and vibrant, Cea's voice transports readers through a rivetingly dysfunctional childhood in the Canadian wilderness, adolescent modeling success, motherhood and her struggle to confront-and come to terms with-the past.

Author Details:

Cea is the author of North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both and Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family, and Myself, which chronicle her counterculture wilderness childhood and dramatic move into an international modeling career at age thirteen. She has spoken about her unusual life at a TEDx talk, a high school program for underprivileged students, and a men’s prison, to name a few audiences. She has also taught memoir writing at Vancouver’s Capilano University and, in 2017, served as the writer-in-residence for the Creative Nonfiction MFA course at University of Kings College in Halifax. North of Normal is currently being developed into a feature film. Cea lives in Vancouver with her husband and three children.