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050 4 HQ770.K65|bA3 2019
082 04 910.4/1|223
100 1 Kois, Dan,|eauthor.
245 10 How to be a family :|bthe year I dragged my kids around
the world to find a new way to be together /|cDan Kois.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bLittle, Brown and Company,|c2019.
264 4 |c©2019
300 viii, 324 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
505 0 You're screwing up -- New Zealand, January-April. Steves ;
The goodbye party -- The Netherlands, April-July. Phantom
ducks ; The dance recital -- Costa Rica, July-September.
Tides -- Kansas, October-December. Bricks ; The posada --
Love and attention.
520 "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--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."--Amazon.com.
600 10 Kois, Dan|xTravel.
650 0 Families|xTravel.
650 0 Voyages around the world.
650 0 Voyages and travels|vAnecdotes.
650 0 Parenting|vAnecdotes.
650 7 Families|xTravel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01983765
650 7 Parenting.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01053407
650 7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558
650 7 Voyages and travels.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01169308
650 7 Voyages around the world.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01169326
650 7 Family|zUnited States.|2sears
650 7 Work and family.|2sears
650 7 Parenting.|2sears
650 7 Parent-child relationship.|2sears
650 7 Travel|vAnecdotes.|2sears
655 7 Anecdotes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423876
655 7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894
655 7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft
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