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Book cover of Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

A Few Squirts of a Turkey Baster

Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

January 12, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Challenge: New to you authors #1 Chrysta and her sister are the daughters of a dynamic and damaged woman, a single lesbian who yearned for a child in the rather unaccepting 1980s – and found her ideal sperm donor in a hair salon. But both Debra and Jeffrey hid many secrets from their children. There’s that oft-quoted opening sentence of Anna Karenina – “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I thought of that quote, and how […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, ARC, CBR15Passport, Chrysta Bilton, coming-of-age, family, lgbt, NetGalley, non fiction

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, ARC, CBR15Passport, Chrysta Bilton, coming-of-age, family, lgbt, NetGalley, non fiction ·
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