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

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

by Tsh Oxenreider
At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe

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

by Tsh Oxenreider

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Overview

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400205592
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 04/18/2017
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 242,990
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
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.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part I 1

1 Leaving 3

Part II 17

2 China 19

3 Hong Kong 39

4 Thailand 43

5 Singapore 63

Part III 69

6 Australia 71

7 New Zealand 87

8 Australia, Again 95

Intermission 107

9 Sri Lanka 109

Part IV 123

10 Uganda 125

11 Ethiopia 141

12 Zimbabwe 151

13 Kenya 159

14 Morocco 169

Part V 179

15 France 181

16 Italy 197

17 Croatia 211

18 Kosovo 219

19 Turkey 225

20 Germany 237

21 England 249

Part VI 255

22 Returning 257

Epilogue 265

Acknowledgments 269

About The Author 273

Notes 275

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