Bibliograph

Running away to home, our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from, and what really matters, Jennifer Wilson

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Running away to home, our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from, and what really matters, Jennifer Wilson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Running away to home

Oclc number

707969320

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Wilson

Sub title

our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from, and what really matters

Summary

"Jennifer Wilson, her architect husband, Jim, and their two children had been living the typical soccer- and ballet-practice life in the most Middle American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They overindulged themselves and their kids, and as a family they were losing one another in the rush of work, school, and activities. Jim and Jen had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical in another country, so when they lost half their savings in the stock-market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left the troubled landscape of contemporary America for the Croatian mountain village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, with a population of eight hundred (mostly drunken) residents and a herd of sheep milling around the post office. For several months they lived like locals, from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves."--, adapted from Amazon

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