North of Normal
By Cea Sunrise Person
A memoir. Cea grows up in the 70s in an extended hippy family. Her mother got pregnant at 16, but after five months of marriage the dad leaves. Her grandparents are the most stable ones in the family. Her mother ends up having numerous lovers, so Cea has no real father figure other than her grandfather. They end up living off the land in rural B.C. The family hunts, fishes, lives in tipis, is mostly in poverty, smokes lots of dope, and believes in free sex, plus often wearing no clothes.
Cea survives her chaotic upbringing, and finally escapes when she becomes a model at the age of 15. She moves to New York by herself to build her career. She goes through three marriages before finally sorting out the trauma she suffered during her early years of chaos.
I didn't actually read the whole book, maybe about half. It got to be too much. I just wanted to see how her modelling career went and how she finally got herself sorted out.
Rating: 3/4
Recommendation: Sure.
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