Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that wont let go and one womans attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apart In her bestselling memoir North of Normal Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhoodher 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 Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Ceas unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years. At the age of thirty-seven Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a childhusband 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. The Globe and Mail says Persons 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. Nearly Normal chronicles 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.