
Normal Family
On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
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This riveting, nuanced memoir about unforgettable individuals thrown together by chance and DNA tells a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance.
What is a “normal family,” and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton’s magnetic, larger-than-life mother, Debra, yearned to have a child, but as a single gay woman in 1980s California, she had few options. Until one day, while getting her hair done in a Beverly Hills salon, she met a man and instantly knew he was the one she’d been looking for. Beautiful, athletic, artistic, and from a well-to-do family, Jeffrey Harrison appeared to be Debra’s ideal sperm donor.
A verbal agreement, a couple of thousand in cash, and a few squirts of a turkey baster later, and Chrysta was conceived. Over the years, Jeffrey would make regular appearances at the family home, which grew to include Chrysta’s baby sister. But how much did Debra really know about the man she’d chosen to father her daughters? And as a single mother torn between ferocious independence and abject dependence—on other women, alcohol, drugs, and the adrenaline of get-rich-quick schemes—what secrets of her own was she keeping?
It wasn’t until Chrysta was a young adult that she discovered just how much her parents had hidden from their daughters—and each other—including a shocking revelation with far-reaching consequences not only for Debra, Chrysta, and her sister, but for dozens and possibly hundreds of unsuspecting families across the country. After a lifetime of longing for a “normal family,” can Chrysta face the reality of her own, in all its complexity? Bringing us into the fold of a deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving clan that is anything but “normal,” this emotional roller coaster of a memoir will make you cry, laugh, and rethink the meaning of family.
Named a 'Best Book of the Summer' by LA Times, People, USA Today, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon, Apple, Cup of Jo, Kirkus, Parade, & Today
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Since her time on Saturday Night Live, where she created the infamous androgynous character "Pat", Julia Sweeney has gone on to establish herself as a witty, captivating performer of one-woman shows, like God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God. She gave a TED talk sharing how she explained the birds and the bees to her eight-year-old daughter, Mulan, which ignited an incredible response. Now, when it comes to talking about motherhood, people want to hear what Julia has to say.
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I Love Julia Sweeney
- De Lisa en 04-05-13
De: Julia Sweeney
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Here's the Story
- Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
- De: Maureen McCormick
- Narrado por: Maureen McCormick
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick was living a very different - and not so wonderful - life. Maureen tells the shocking and inspirational true story of the beloved teen and the woman she became.
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Gripping
- De Chris en 08-12-14
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After Perfect
- A Daughter's Memoir
- De: Christina McDowell
- Narrado por: Christina McDowell
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In the tradition of New York Times best sellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowell's unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion.
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Mixed reaction
- De Margaret en 07-09-15
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In the Country We Love
- My Family Divided
- De: Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
- Narrado por: Diane Guerrero
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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Moves very slowly
- De Laura S. en 07-23-16
De: Diane Guerrero, y otros
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Fairyland
- A Memoir of My Father
- De: Alysia Abbott
- Narrado por: Alysia Abbott
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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Great representation of the time
- De AvidReader22 en 06-07-19
De: Alysia Abbott
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Pieces of Me
- Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters
- De: Lizbeth Meredith
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their noncustodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece. Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour budget.
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You really won't want to stop listening!
- De Artist's Eye en 07-17-18
De: Lizbeth Meredith
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She Regrets Nothing
- A Novel
- De: Andrea Dunlop
- Narrado por: Rachel Dulude
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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When Laila Lawrence becomes an orphan at 23, the sudden loss unexpectedly introduces her to three glamorous cousins from New York who show up unannounced at her mother's funeral. The three siblings are scions of the wealthy family from which Laila's father had been estranged long before his own untimely demise 10 years before. Two years later, Laila has left behind her quiet life in Grosse Point, Michigan to move to New York City, landing her smack in the middle of her cousins' decadent world.
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Good Listen
- De Vallena en 02-19-18
De: Andrea Dunlop
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Until I Say Good-Bye
- My Year of Living with Joy
- De: Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Susan Spencer-Wendel's Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling to several countries and sharing special experiences with loved ones.
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Until I Say Good-Bye is a paradox for me.
- De Bonny en 03-19-13
De: Susan Spencer-Wendel, y otros
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Instant Mom
- De: Nia Vardalos
- Narrado por: Nia Vardalos
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family. Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only 14 hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler.
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Honesty of the experience
- De Nikolee Palmer en 01-02-25
De: Nia Vardalos
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Everything You Ever Wanted
- A Memoir
- De: Jillian Lauren
- Narrado por: Jillian Lauren
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best-selling memoir, Some Girls. In her 30s, Jillian's most radical act is learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs.
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It takes a village
- De Derek Jackson en 12-30-24
De: Jillian Lauren
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Saints for All Occasions
- A Novel
- De: J. Courtney Sullivan
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
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The narration ruined it
- De Janis Reynolds en 06-12-17
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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Can't Forgive
- My 20-Year Battle with O.J. Simpson
- De: Kim Goldman
- Narrado por: Kim Goldman
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When Kim Goldman was just 22, her older brother, Ron, was brutally killed by O. J. Simpson. Ron and Kim were very close, and her devastation was compounded by the shocking not guilty verdict that allowed a smirking Simpson to leave as a free man.
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Selfish
- De B. A. C. en 04-08-16
De: Kim Goldman
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Trans Figured
- My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
- De: Brian Belovitch
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Brian Belovitch has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From growing up in a barely-working-class first-generation immigrant family in Fall River, Massachusetts, to spinning across the disco dance floor of Studio 54 in New York City, Brian escaped many near-death experiences. Trans Figured chronicles a life lived on the edge with an unforgettable cast of characters.
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How utterly exhausting
- De Leah en 11-19-18
De: Brian Belovitch
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At Home with the Templetons
- De: Monica McInerney
- Narrado por: Ulli Birve
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking – and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so bohemian, peculiar even. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina Donovan and her young son Tom. Before long, the two families' lives become entwined in unexpected ways.
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A dreadful mistake
- De Julie en 11-14-10
De: Monica McInerney
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- Katsan32
- 07-19-22
Great Story
I can perfectly imagine every character. I feel like I’ve met the authors two moms and daddy. It’s a wild ride and I’m happy that Chrysta has a stable family now.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-21-22
Impatient to see the movie!
Such a delicious book. If you liked The Glass Castle, this one is for you.
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- Shanny
- 07-30-22
Excellent!
This personal and extraordinary account of this dynamic family was so moving, touching, and perfectly imperfect! Loved every powerful word!
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- Dawn Urban
- 03-07-23
Nothing normal but beautiful memoir
I kept asking myself throughout the story how Chrysta survived such an unstable childhood. Such a beautiful memoir how she progresses through the life she was given and how she comes to peace with it.
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- Sarah D.
- 08-07-22
Great book!
The author/narrator was terrific. Really enjoyed her story. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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- Sunny
- 08-30-22
Wow - loved this book!
Wow - loved this memoir! Did not want it to end - what an incredible story and it unfolded in such beautiful layers!
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- stephie
- 01-18-23
Great story
Loved this story. Well written narration was excellent Crazy story and touching and loving. I took pause on my own family. Different and yet still a dis functional crazy family.
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- ZsaZsa's mom
- 08-16-22
Loved this!
Reading about or listening to peoples stories of their families that are messier than mine always comfort me somehow. I marveled at the resilience of the author and the sad yet endearing and comical childhood she relates.
Chrysta has an epic family story she tells beautifully. Bravo!
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- kathleen kirstein
- 10-04-22
great book
I loved this book, I couldn't put it down once I started it. The writing style of the Author flowed and it was very interesting. A must read.
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- Veronica Saltiel
- 07-24-23
Amazing story
What a great book, I loved everything about it.
The reading was excellent. Highly recommended ❤️
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