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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. 
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650  7 Parenting.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01053407 
650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
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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 
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655  7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894 
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