Practicing Normal

As with most ‘women’s literature’ I found things to love and things to hate within this novel. I think the title is brilliant. What family isn’t practicing normal? Every family has it’s own struggles and issues that it is dealing with. Society expects certain behaviors from people and many families......more

Opening up Practicing Normal to read I wasn't sure what I was going to find, or whether I would enjoy it, pretty much normal for me when I am reading into a new author. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed this story very much. The telling of the story rotates around three of the char......more

Poor Kate Turner. She lives in a beautiful home in Pine Estates with her family: husband, Everett; teenage daughter, Jenna; and tween son, JT. But things are not as lovely (and normal) as they appear from the outside. Everett works at a security firm, but he also disappears for hours on end, and Kat......more

A great book about the games families play and what love really is. I was given a copy of this book as a gift and I freely chose to review it. Tolstoi’s probably best-known quote: All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way fits perfectly this novel. As a ps......more

Authentic, heartwarming, and intriguing! This is a thought-provoking novel that reminds us that life is unpredictable and that when it comes to “normal” perspective is everything. The story is told from three different points of view; Kate, a mother, wife and daughter who spends all her time and energ......more