North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
&#8220;Accounts of early childhood are tricky&#151;too many details and it&#8217;s impossible to trust the writer&#8217;s memory&#151;but Person navigates the challenge with real grace. Her clear-eyed memoir captures her family&#8217;s quest and its collapse without bitterness. &#8221; (Boston Globe)&#8220;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,North of Normal, retraces her unique path.&#8221; (Cosmopolitan)&#8220;North of Normalcontains so many jaw-dropping scenes it makes Jeannette Walls&#8217; childhood (The Glass Castle) look almost conventional.... [it] illuminate[s] family relationships that juxtapose love with torment, and illustrate the power of forgiveness.&#8221; (Toronto Star)&#8220;A former international model charts her unconventional childhood in the 1960s with a hippie-ish family.&#8230;Written with stylistic clarity and studded with family photos, Person&#8217;s lucid memories present a stirring scrapbook.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)