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

 Shirley J.                  Adult Non-Fiction                              Artificial Insemination, Ancestry.Com

Normal Family:On Truth, Love and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton     288 pages    

The Brady Bunch they are not.   Chrysta Bilton, her mother and her sister made a startling discovery after having submitted a saliva sample to Ancestry.Com, Chrysta started getting lots of hits from people saying according to their DNA it shows they are related.   Times that by 35 and counting!  What Chrysta's mother hadn't told her and her sister was that her father was not in a loving relationship with their Mother, he had actually just happened to be in the same hair salon at the same time as her mother, a gay woman in the 1980s decided to approach the man who would become Chrysta's father with a proposition.   He was so gorgeous she thought he would make a beautiful baby and Chrysta's Mom so wanted a baby.   They worked it out, she paid him not to have sex with her but to give her a sperm sample in a turkey baster so she and her partner could artificially inseminate her to become pregnant.   Over the years she did this twice with the same guy so her daughters would have the same parents.  In order to get Dad to come by and spend a little time with the kiddies, Chrysta's mother would pay him, he never appeared unless he was paid of course the little girls didn't know this.   It is an interesting tale of opulence and loss, addiction, AA, love and family in all sorts of circumstances and situations, recovery and forgiveness.   It is a good story better because it is true for all those involved.  I recommend this one to adults on up, the subject matter is best digested after overcoming some of life's ups and downs to give a little clarity to some of the crazy situations life deals them.