(Ebook) How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois ISBN 9780316452816, 9780316552615, 0316452815, 0316552615, B07MPWR57W

(Ebook) How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois ISBN 9780316452816, 9780316552615, 0316452815, 0316552615, B07MPWR57W

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.