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Item specifics
- Condition
- Modified Item
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Unknown
- Regional Cuisine
- American
- Region
- N/A, World
- Book Series
- No
- Country
- USA
- Title
- How to Be a Family
- Type
- Biography
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- ISBN
- 0316552623
- EAN
- 9780316552622
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- City
- Amsterdam
- Cookery Topic
- N/A
- Era
- 2010s
- Features
- CD's, Audio, Audio CD
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- How to Be a Family : The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Parenting / General, Special Interest / Family, Personal Memoirs, General
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
1549100491
ISBN-13
9781549100499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038490989
Product Key Features
Topic
Parenting / General, Special Interest / Family, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
2019
Book Title
How to Be a Family : The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
Language
English
Genre
Family & Relationships, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7 In.
Item Width
5.2 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
New York Times' Best Holiday Books of 2019 New York Post 's Awesome Books for the Holidays Bookpage 's Best Lighthearted Nonfiction of 2019 A BookRiot New Nonfiction Release to Add to Your Nightstand Included in Buzzfeed's Holiday Gift Guide Featured in Entertainment Weekly 's Best Holiday Books, How To Be a Family is a witty, surprising and compulsively readable book. You may find yourself planning a geographical cure of your own by the time you reach the end of it. But Kois is too thoughtful a writer to dwell only on the transformative possibilities of such a trip. Nothing is quite as his family imagined it would be and this leads the book into exhilarating, emotionally complex territory.|9781549100499|, Borrows a page from Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love ....this book is an antidote to the documentarian approach that now pervades much travel writing., Kois and his family actually take the dizzying leap to leave behind their lives for a year-a trek that takes them from New Zealand to Kansas-and the result is a unique book that every overstressed and anxious (meaning = every) parent should read.|9781549100499|, This sometimes hair-raising adventure in family togetherness across many continents took courage even to attempt, and a lively sense of humor to describe. Kois has produced a delightful and eye-opening book about what it means to be a family in the modern world., This book shows how one family works, as a way of helping us all ask ourselves: How might (and ought) our own families best function?...Discuss this book with people you care about, who also care about you., How To Be a Family is a witty, surprisingand compulsively readable book. You may find yourself planning ageographical cure of your own by the time you reach the end of it. But Kois istoo thoughtful a writer to dwell only on the transformative possibilities ofsuch a trip. Nothing is quite as his family imagined it would be and this leadsthe book into exhilarating, emotionally complex territory.|9781549100499|, Kois is a self-aware, menschy, and amusing guide to this adventure, picking apart what you can leave behind, what you can pick up along the way, and what will follow you wherever you are., A hilarious and honest book about how wherever you (and your kids) go, there you (and their screens) are., In this highly entertaining and wryly insightful book, Dan Kois shows how elastic the very concept of family is. As he recounts his family's encounters with four foreign cultures, he illuminates not only those other societies, but also our own. He argues persuasively that we have much to learn from divorcing ourselves from our own assumptions., Might remind cinema-minded readers of the end of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film Local Hero ...nicely tuned-in observations befitting a keen-eyed journalist., Lots of people talk about pulling up stakes and traveling for a year. Dan Kois and his family actually did it. He's funny and honest about how it all turned out., Kois, an editor at Slate, made a project of exploring what living in other cultures-in this case, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and Kansas-could teach [his family] about becoming closer. The result is his heartwarming memoir., As many parents know, the key to making a family work is: Put in the time. Dan Kois and his wife took their two kids on the trip of a lifetime and learned what's great (and miserable) about how that time passes. The result is a funny, thoughtful, well-reported and inspiring guide for anyone hoping to create family adventures (and misadventures) of their own., In thishighly entertaining and wryly insightful book, Dan Kois shows how elastic the very concept of family is. As he recounts his family's encounters with four foreign cultures, he illuminates not only those other societies, but also our own. He argues persuasively that we have much to learn from divorcing ourselves from our own assumptions., Many parents will relate to the experiences in this book of trying to get your kids to do stuff. Dan gives us some hope that we can ask our kids to do hard things, to adapt to new challenges, and it can be good for everyone. Also, the book is wildly entertaining., This book shows how one family works, as a way of helping us all ask ourselves: How might (and ought) our own families best function? ... Discuss this book with people you care about, who also care about you.
Dewey Decimal
910.4/1
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Synopsis
What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be together? Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his wife and daughters on a journey around the world to change their lives together. Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-- Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-- could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together?In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny book, the fractious, loving Kois family goes in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-- but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble.HOW TO BE A FAMILY brings readers along as the Kois girls-- witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-- hike through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go?A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, HOW TO BE A FAMILY will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take., In this "refreshingly relatable" ( Outside ) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives togethe r. What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their kids. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness together?In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny family memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer together. Over a year the family lands in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see how other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble.HOW TO BE A FAMILY brings readers along as the Kois girls-witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-like through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go?A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining, HOW TO BE A FAMILY will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take.
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- l***b (3393)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat Seller& great transaction!!! Item exactly as described & pictured; well packed & promptly shipped; excellent customer service & communication. Fab value! Thank you so much!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Downton Abbey on Location: An Unofficial Review & Guide Locations VG+ Condition (#116592145980)
- n***n (10)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseThe package was shipped in a cute mailer, it was a shame to rip open! The CD was as described, wrapped in two bubble mailer packs. The item itself was in super great condition for being 22 years old! I'm super pleased that this was even somewhere on the internet to begin with, the value is priceless to me personally.Genesis 2003 Under the Influence 2 CD Set Only One on eBay RARE Hard to Find VG (#116343226829)