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Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir

Nominated for Best Memoir of 2009

Sound travels far inside a home at night for every child who hears the whispers and tears through the upstairs banister. Just as this ripple in one family’s history grew to a wave of fear, so did the stature of the individuals who had witnessed it. The future carries the scars from the harm done before. One hopes that the past will allow us to shape and control the next step, to avoid the dangers, the foolish errors and mistakes that echo the last generation, and the one before that. But instead, the path, though inviting with its colors of gold and silver and the sounds of laughter and joy, is also shrouded in mystery, obscured in grays. Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

(Excerpt, Chapter 1)

Mothers Day - May 13th, 2012 ( FREE Kindle )

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Based on a True Story

 

Author Kris Courtney

It is this kind of brave honesty of confession and growing philosophy that makes the book unique. A " must-read " for all who ponder their roots and family life. This is an intense , compelling story of a baby who was born defective in body but not in spirit.
The reader must be prepared for a journey like no other that visits incest between cousins and the heartbreak that follows. Written with grace and style,
Norma Jean's Sun should be on the New York Times bestseller list within the year !


What makes this book different and easy to read is the personal manner in which Courtney writes: 'I know that most of you who read this will struggle with, perhaps even reject, the idea that I have lived my entire life feeling as if an existence as Frankenstein was my only fate in life. But since I can recall, I have had the overwhelming desire that when I met someone new, he will look me in the eye and not be compelled or distracted to look at my body, my hands, or the mental equipment supporting them.' And at the end of his book he writes: 'If you have ever wondered about another human who is different from you in appearance, try to find the similarities, not the differences. We are more alike than we are different.'



Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

Amazon 5 Star, True Story Memoir Book Review

Highly recommended, May 15, 2011

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Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir (Kindle Edition)

I bought this book primarily because I am acquainted with the author in an online sort of way, but I have never met him. I wasn't sure what to expect, so, hoping it would be a light & easy read, saved it for a recent beach trip.

It proved riveting, so much so that I ignored my traveling companions & the beach, & read until it was finished. It is a story of family love, pain & triumph. I only wish Norma Jean had lived to see the man Kris has become. She would be so proud! But then, she was always proud of him.

I recommend this book to everyone, bar none!

It is a wonderful commentary on the very things that make us all human.

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

Norma Jean's Sun Memoir ( Based on a True Story )

www.kriscourtney.com

A Gardian Angel - Norma Jean

Norma Jean's Sun, Based on a True Story

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I recall when Mothers Day would allow expressions of Joy & Happiness. One such year I regained enough composure to send her a Dozen Yellow Roses, her favorite ...

Norma’s desire for a modeling or acting career had faded, but she was still a shining star. The year before, for her birthday, she’d been given the gift of a full portrait, professionally painted, to use to pursue a modeling career. Norma had become a woman, a beautiful woman, who learned early on that her grace and education, combined with God’s gift of beauty, would take her far. (Pg 30)

Even though Norma was often distracted (by what I later learned were her own fears), she was constantly attending to my needs as well as a new bride could. (Pg 127)

Her inner beauty did not take a distant second either, as light radiated from every corner of her being. 'This too shall pass...

Norma Jean's Sun Memoir ( Based on a True Story ) The story is not only convincingly true, but will rivet the reader with its genuine and unassuming pathos. It is this kind of brave honesty of confession and growing philosophy that makes the book unique. Miraculous tale of how a boy, born into unimaginable physical and emotional pain and destined to be a misfit, finds his way in a world of “others.” Few could survive so many torturous years of surgical intervention and a ensuing lifelong struggle with drugs and alcohol addiction and come out ahead. This moving tale reveals not only the struggle and heartrending elements of generational lives “gone wrong,” but also the love and growth of a human being overcoming the odds and determined to find a way to live life to the fullest. Based on a true story, the author’s unapologetic prose prompts enduring ethical questions and makes a gripping, personal read. Norma Jean's Sun is painfully reflective yet ultimately hopeful, a story told through the eyes of a boy who believes he has been mistakenly born into the world and a man who conquers physical and emotional injustice--and thrives. The reader will be challenged to answer the difficult questions of right and wrong as they may apply to his or her own life. It is clear that it is the hope of this author that the reader's conclusions will lead to a more fulfilled view of the "parallel beauty that lives just beneath the surface for us all." 

Wishing all who have lost, a Sincere Mothers Day ...

Hinkley Water & Erin Brockovich - Town of Poison

Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

While many of the more than 600 original Hinkley litigants moved away from the town after the 1996 settlement, Walker stayed. She preferred the remote desert landscape to a city skyline.

Now, Walker and Brockovich are struggling to understand how this could be happening all over again.

"When I first met Roberta back in 1991 and 1992, she said PG&E is buying property, handing out bottled water and my horse just died," she said. "This year she called and said they're buying property, handing out bottled water and my horse just died.

"Eerie doesn't describe it," she said. "It was out of body — it was like the 20 years never happened."

In 2008, the plume of chromium began spreading. Despite efforts by PG&E to stem the problem, tests this year showed it was growing again. According the utility and water board, the plume is two miles long and a mile wide.