Perfectly Normal

An Immigrant’s Story Of Making It In America

Michelle Kuei was an 11-year-old student in rural Taiwan when a car running a red light completely altered her life’s trajectory. Through the long and painful process of recovery, Kuei made surprising discoveries about loss, identity, and personal strength--revelations that helped guide her through her journey as an immigrant to the United States. With radical honesty bolstering her storytelling, Kuei shows us how positive transformation can happen when we let go of self-pity, embrace our flaws, and learn to love ourselves.

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"Emotional Rollercoaster"

From the first page, Michelle's story had me hooked! I finished it a day, enthralled by her poetic yet smooth-flowing writing style.
The emotional rollercoaster depiction of strength, endurance, and perseverance that shine through every word perfectly illustrates the power of one's determination and mindset. - Jenn Chow
"Captivating"

This book captivated me throughout, like the best ones always do.
The storytelling is first class: the narrative of family, life experiences, peace, conflict, joy, and significant adversity. It's a book of emotional struggle, longing for core needs that we so often go without.
This is sincerely a story I'd like to give as a gift to my family and friends. - Michael Toebe
"Remarkable"

What a remarkable story of journeying from tragedy to triumph.
What an extraordinary offering you have in your chosen profession of being a coach.
You truly have the skills and life experience to help people to surmount unbelievable and seemingly impossible odds and rise up to live a life beyond compare and offer this same experience to others through your book and partaking of your coaching. -Christine Johnson

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Prologue

At age 11, Michelle was permanently disabled in a car accident that froze her growth at 4’ 4” and left her needing crutches to walk.

By her own admission, she wasn’t just physically small – she used to live her life emotionally small. The hardest part of living with a visible disability was the shame and unworthiness she carried in her heart and mind.

So she embarked on what began as just a physical fitness journey – and evolved into a life-transformation journey when she decided to join her gym mates in their quest to climb Machu Picchu in Peru.

She hiked up the 26 miles of ascending trail 8-10 hours a day. She had to bandage her wrists so they wouldn’t break as they took a load of her body weight with every step on her crutches.

She ultimately ascended the peak … crawling on her hands and knees at the end, to the cheers of those in her party who had been strangers at the outset of the journey.

When she came home, she was changed forever.