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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet: 9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family
Melissa Fay Greene
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet: 9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family
Melissa Fay Greene
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, ?among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia.?
Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. But she and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. ?We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn?t want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers.?
A celebration of parenthood; an ingathering of children, through birth and out of loss and bereavement; a relishing of moments hilarious and enlightening?No Biking in the House Without a Helmet is a loving portrait of a unique twenty-first-century family as it wobbles between disaster and joy.
368 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 24, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780374533380 |
Publishers | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 140 × 208 × 222 mm · 449 g |
Language | English |
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