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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival. In the late 1960s...

When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.

I Tried to Be Normal, But It Was Taken is an interactive experience blending raw storytelling, humor found in the darkness, and practical, deceptively simple, 3-Minute, neuro-science inspired, stress-management methods you can use immediately. And then, there's a wildly unexpected chapter as a comedy stripper. Here's the twist: you don't need a dramatic past to benefit from the data-backed, outrageous tools. If you've ever felt overwhelmed, triggered, stuck, anxious, or simply shaped by life's challenges, this book is for you.