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At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe Kindle Edition

by Tsh Oxenreider (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.

The wide world is calling.

Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade. They’ve been back in the States—now with three kids under ten—for four years, and while home is nice, they are filled with wanderlust and long to answer the call.

Why not? The kids are all old enough to carry their own backpacks but still young enough to be uprooted, so a trip—a nine-months-long trip—is planned.

At Home in the World follows their journey from China to New Zealand, Ethiopia to England, and more. They traverse bumpy roads, stand in awe before a waterfall that feels like the edge of the earth, and chase each other through three-foot-wide passageways in Venice. And all the while Tsh grapples with the concept of home, as she learns what it means to be lost—yet at home—in the world.

“In this candid, funny, thought-provoking account, Tsh shows that it’s possible to combine a love for adventure with a love for home.” —Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before

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Tsh Oxenreider is the author of Notes from a Blue Bike and Organized Simplicity, and is the founder of the community blog The Art of Simple. She’s the top-ranked podcaster of The Simple Show, and her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Real Simple magazine, and more. A graduate of the University of Texas, where she studied English and anthropology, Tsh currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her family and eats tacos several times a week.

 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HAK36DK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 18 April 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400205608
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Best Sellers Rank: 678,767 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
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Tsh Oxenreider is the bestselling author of three books, most notably At Home in the World, her travel memoir about her family’s year traveling around the world out of backpacks, as well as Notes From a Blue Bike and Organized Simplicity. Her writing has been featured in Real Simple magazine, CNN, Washington Post, CNBC, and more, and has been mentioned on Apartment Therapy, HGTV, Better Homes and Gardens, Food Network, NPR, Parents magazine, and beyond.

She’s the founder of the long-running community website The Art of Simple and is currently writing her first novel. She also thinks a library card, a Netflix subscription, and a passport are some of the greatest educational tools in the universe, and she also loves coffee and hates wearing socks.

She currently lives in Central Texas with her family, but they've called several dots around the globe home. Together, they love to travel, read books, go camping, and make homemade pizza for family movie night.

Find Tsh at tshoxenreider.com, where you can find links to where else she hangs out online, and to sign up for her popular weekly newsletter.

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Speaks to the longings in all of us
    Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2017
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    This book makes travelling the world with 3 kids in tow seem normal and accessible. It doesn't smudge over the hard parts and isn't afraid to be real, yet it creates a nostalgia for our own adventures, and ultimately a home community.

    Beautifully written and full of literary words this book gives a glimpse into another family's life. It is a treat to behold.
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  • Erica Galloway
    5.0 out of 5 stars Goosebumps
    Reviewed in Australia on 1 August 2017
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    Tsh captures perfectly the feeling of being a homebody with itchy feet. As I've just returned home after two years away, I loved this book.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Australia on 22 April 2017
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    80% read and I am loving this book.
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  • Wolfgang Kasper
    2.0 out of 5 stars Trip around the world
    Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2017
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    The topic, globetrotting with kids, is interesting, but the writing was uneven. Too much about playgrounds and boring menus, no sense of history, politics or the economy of countries visited.
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  • Jennifer L. Bradbury
    5.0 out of 5 stars A travel memoir that will inspire you to go
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 June 2017
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    Before we had kids, my husband and I loved to travel together. As juniors in college, we studied abroad in Russia. Ever since then, whenever we've gotten the chance to go somewhere, we have.
    One of my fears in becoming a parent was that we'd stop traveling; that traveling with kids would simply be too hard.
    As it turns out, traveling with kids is hard. But my husband and I still love to travel. In fact, our desire to travel might actually be stronger than it's ever been. We long to share the beauty of the world with our daughter. What's more, we believe that one of the best ways to combat racism is to introduce our daughter to other people and cultures.
    So when we got the opportunity to go to Africa last month for a research project I'm working on with Arbor Research Group, we went... And we took our two-year old daughter with us.
    While traveling, I devoured Tsh Oxenreider's book, At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe. Having enjoyed Tsh's Notes from a Blue Bike, I was excited to read her travel memoir, especially since she wrote it while traveling the globe with her three young children.
    In At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe, Tsh devotes a chapter to each of the different places she and her family visited on their worldwide tour. She writes honestly about each place, sharing its beauty but also sharing the difficulties she and her family experienced there.
    What I loved most about At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe are the insights that Tsh gained from traveling the world. For example, in her reflections on Thailand, she shares, “I want to see in the flesh how many people there are in the world and how many don't know me or, really, care about me. I want to remember my smallness. I want to be a prophet in the wilderness, shouting from jungles and deserts and foreign cities that we are all small and to remember what a tiny place we each take up in the world. Small might be insignificant, but it does not mean unimportant... I long for God to show me where I belong, where my home is in the world, and my smallness in it.”
    Tsh continues her reflections on home through her book. In Australia, Again, she suggests, “Without a foundation underneath four walls, we identify with everywhere and no where.”
    Because I was in Africa while reading At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe, I especially enjoyed Tsh's chapters focusing on her experience there. In Zimbabwe, she concludes, “Africa is a cry that's become a thunderous shout. Here, people commune with the land and with their neighbors... Africa is a community of strangers, but they extend hospitality like a family of humanity. Perhaps we will leave here more than just acquaintances to the continent.”
    Parents will especially relate to Tsh's parenting observations. In Australia, Tsh writes, “It feels daunting to release my four- and six-year-olds out into the Great Barrier Reef. This is the constant parental challenge, to push our fledglings out the tree, into the liminal void, a maturing exercise that's exacerbated during travel, when everything is new and nothing is predictable.”
    In New Zealand Tsh observes, “Parenting is hard because of diapers and time-outs, the slog of sounding out vowels and the drama of mailboxes missing party invitations. But it is hardest because it is a mirror. It is life staring me down. It is the echoes of my inner childish voice reverberating from my children's; it is the denial of me going first. It is my flesh and blood unleashed, encased around another personality, another will. It is the continual death of my basal impulses for the exchange of extraordinary.”
    And in Italy, Tsh brilliantly addresses the question, “Why travel with kids who aren't old enough to remember it?” by saying, “The act of travel, the constant moving and shuffling of our bodies and backpacks, our dotted lines across the map, the simplicity of owning less to see more – these small acts are weaving our family's tapestry. Threads of pliable spirits when the train is delayed, rubbing sweaty shoulders with people of different races, sleeping in close quarters, converting new currency every week – these fibers are becoming the heft of our ancestral fabric, the patterns we will show our grandchildren and say, “Here – this corner of the tapestry. This is why you are who you are.” We are learning presence, how to delight in each other's mere existence, muster affection in spite of our quirks.”
    In contrast to travel memoirs that feel removed from the ordinary lives of most people, Tsh's At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe will leave you inspired to journey out – with or without kids. It'll leave you feeling as though it's possible to travel – at any age or life stage – and convince you that traveling is worth it. As Tsh writes in France, “Passport stamps became icons for gathered wisdom. Every time we crossed political borders, we collected more conversations, more honesty, more willingness to take risks.” That, in a nutshell, is why my husband and I travel with our daughter.
    After reading At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe, I can't wait to see where our journey takes us next.
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, uninspiring
    Reviewed in India on 2 February 2018
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    This could have been a significantly better book in the hands of a skilled writer. Poorly narrated events, incomplete sketches of places and people visited and author's tendency, rather inability to go beyond the superficial make it a boring read. When the best lines in a book are quotes from other authors you know the writer is struggling. I give 2 stars only because of the brave effort the family made to tour the world.
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  • Lancsmom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth reading
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2017
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    A lot of fun. I have lived in England for 24 years and it was really fun to read especially about Europe. Lovely that the children were with them. Ours are grown and gone but we traveled a lot with them, but never around the world! I read part of it while I was on the Adriatic in Croatia for a conference. Fun!
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  • christine duncan
    5.0 out of 5 stars More Than Just A Travel Memoir
    Reviewed in Canada on 10 May 2017
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    I loved this book from start to finish. The author not only takes you with her and her young family around the world covering 9 months of destinations and cultural delights, proving it's not impossible to travel with little ones but rather good for their own souls, but reveals what you learn in your heart as you search for the meaning of home wherever you may be.
    It was terrific, and any time I need a taste of adventure, I will open to any chapter, and escape within it's pages!!!
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  • amazonmc
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2017
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    Pleasant and quick read
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