North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both by Cea Sunrise Person
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Another very difficult book to read. To be honest, I would not have read it past page 20 except that this is our next book club selection. Cea's memoir starts out when she is 2 1/2 years old. She lived with her extended family in California and Canadian wilderness. There was no running water, electricity or heat in the tipi, and no regular income for the family. Her mother had a series of different boyfriends, and Cea saw everything going on in the family -- drug use/abuse/addiction, mental illness, nudity, neglect, child sexual assault, and emotional/psychological abuse. Somehow she escaped from this downward spiral and made a modeling career for herself. Overall, it was a shocking and somewhat depressing memoir, but I'm glad that she was able to pull herself out of her family's grips and find happiness and success in her life.
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