Cher: Part One: The Memoir -- Cher

<p><strong>The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.</strong></p><p>After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.</p><p>Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top <em>Billboard</em> charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.</p><p>She is a longtime activist and philanthropist.</p><p>As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship.</p><p>With her trademark honesty and humor<em>, Cher: The Memoir</em> traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.</p><p><em>Cher: The Memoir, Part One</em> follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono--and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.</p><p><em>Cher: The Memoir</em> reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.</p><p>It is a life too immense for only