After an unconventional childhood that ended in the tragic death of her mother and the murder of her Alaskan mobster father Kim Rich was left on her own at the young age of fifteen to fend for herself. Ever since then she began a nearly lifelong pursuit in chasing what most others hada normal life.Rich tugs at your heartstrings as you follow her journey toward normalcy from her teen years freshly orphaned through her high school years spent couchsurfing at local families homes then through her college years a failed first marriage and a rising career as a journalist. Through frank and downtoearth storytelling Rich also tells of her grandfathers kidnapping a frightening health crisis and a sixyear attempt to have children.Picking up right where her first memoir Johnnys Girl left off A Normal Life recounts the authors vivid story of being an ordinary girl faced with extraordinary circumstancesat seemingly every turn in lifewith grace humility and wit.