Normal: A Lifetime of Disabilities, Addictions, and Diagnoses

What happens when survival becomes a full-time job-and normal is redefined every day?In Normal: A Lifetime of Disabilities, Addictions, and Diagnoses, Matthew Saunders shares an unfiltered account of growing up in a family shaped by disability and addiction, navigating adulthood under the weight of chronic illness, and ultimately confronting a Stage IV cancer diagnosis.With honesty, humility, and unexpected humor, Saunders reflects on marriage under pressure, parenting through uncertainty, and the quiet resilience required to keep moving forward when life refuses to cooperate. This is not just a story about illness-it is a story about perspective, faith that bends but doesn't break, and the fragile moments of normalcy that still surface even in the darkest seasons.Raw, reflective, and deeply human, Normal is a reminder that strength is not found in avoiding hardship-but in facing it.

Pagina's: 240, Hardcover, Beneath The Noise Publishing