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The Knocked Up Abroad series
Knocked Up Abroad Again: Baby bumps, twists, and turns around the globe
This heartwarming, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking anthology of stories by 25 women in 25 different countries illustrates that the more we see, the more we learn about ourselves as human beings.
The second anthology in the Knocked Up Abroad series takes readers on an emotional, heartfelt, and humorous journey as an international group of mothers traverse the obstacles, trials, and tribulations of pregnancy, birth, and parenting around the globe. Each mother experiences the cultural differences when raising children in a country that looks, sounds, and expects completely different behaviors than the culture in which she was raised herself. From South America to Asia and many countries in between, the core values of love, heartache, loss, and growth are common for mothers everywhere.
The second anthology in the Knocked Up Abroad series takes readers on an emotional, heartfelt, and humorous journey as an international group of mothers traverse the obstacles, trials, and tribulations of pregnancy, birth, and parenting around the globe. Each mother experiences the cultural differences when raising children in a country that looks, sounds, and expects completely different behaviors than the culture in which she was raised herself. From South America to Asia and many countries in between, the core values of love, heartache, loss, and growth are common for mothers everywhere.
314 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 16
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October 7, 2017
What a great collection of stories!
This is a collection of stories and most of them were something that you want to read repeatedly. Not all of the stories were interesting, but all of them were worth the read. It's an homage to mothers and motherhood, and mixed with different cultures. One thing all mothers-to-be share, and that's the unknown. The fears, hopes, dreams and everything else that life brings before the child is even born. My favorite chapter was chapter 11, entitled "Seven weeks and twenty eight days." I also liked that is was separated by chapter, rather than just a collection of stories. It flowed well and was put together perfectly. I may just have to read the first one.
This is a collection of stories and most of them were something that you want to read repeatedly. Not all of the stories were interesting, but all of them were worth the read. It's an homage to mothers and motherhood, and mixed with different cultures. One thing all mothers-to-be share, and that's the unknown. The fears, hopes, dreams and everything else that life brings before the child is even born. My favorite chapter was chapter 11, entitled "Seven weeks and twenty eight days." I also liked that is was separated by chapter, rather than just a collection of stories. It flowed well and was put together perfectly. I may just have to read the first one.
June 17, 2018
This book was a great compilation of birth experiences from across the globe.
Kristy Smith’s ‘Twenty-Eight Hours in Abu Dhabi’, Vanessa Jenck’s ‘My Foreign Miscarriage’, Olga Mecking’s ‘Unexpected Encounters Of the Playground Kind’, Michelle Acker Perez’s ‘Woven Between Two Cultures’ and Sarah Murdock’s The life of Riley (and His Siblings) in Benin were moving, stellar reads.
I loved the cultural sensitivity shown by these writers as there were a couple of others that left a jarring aftertaste of privilege and cultural generalization. Overall, this was a wonderful read and I look forward to the next installment, hopefully with a few more accounts from non-western mothers who have been knocked-up abroad, as well.
Kristy Smith’s ‘Twenty-Eight Hours in Abu Dhabi’, Vanessa Jenck’s ‘My Foreign Miscarriage’, Olga Mecking’s ‘Unexpected Encounters Of the Playground Kind’, Michelle Acker Perez’s ‘Woven Between Two Cultures’ and Sarah Murdock’s The life of Riley (and His Siblings) in Benin were moving, stellar reads.
I loved the cultural sensitivity shown by these writers as there were a couple of others that left a jarring aftertaste of privilege and cultural generalization. Overall, this was a wonderful read and I look forward to the next installment, hopefully with a few more accounts from non-western mothers who have been knocked-up abroad, as well.
April 9, 2018
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December 9, 2016
A former colleague of mine now lives in Guatemala and is married to a Guatemalan man. They have a young daughter and Michelle blogs and does Instagram about what it's like to live in a bi-cultural family. She contributed an essay to this book so I definitely wanted to support her by contributing to the Kickstarter. And, I love a good travel/live abroad story and a good birth story so it seemed like a fun book to support and read.
This book is fun. I am doing the review before I am completely done, but that's okay because of the type of book it is. It is set up with a few sections: Knocked Up Abroad; Loss and Healing Abroad; and Parenting Abroad. Since it is all essays, it is easy to skip around, read about the countries or topics that most interest you, and to do so in any order you want. Pretty freeing, right?
One of my favorites so far is the essay by my friend, "Woven Between Two Cultures" (Michelle Acker Perez) even though I've heard much of it before in her Instagram and on her blog, Simply Complicated. The other one I found fascinating was "A Girl and Her Guard" by Sara Ackerman. Sara lived in the Congo and adopted a girl from Congo. The essay takes place once they are living in Ethiopia and the friendships her young daughter makes with the house guard and neighbors. Oh, and the essay about the pollution in China? Chilling!
Some of the essays are funny, some are poignant, some are sad, but they are all interesting!
This book is fun. I am doing the review before I am completely done, but that's okay because of the type of book it is. It is set up with a few sections: Knocked Up Abroad; Loss and Healing Abroad; and Parenting Abroad. Since it is all essays, it is easy to skip around, read about the countries or topics that most interest you, and to do so in any order you want. Pretty freeing, right?
One of my favorites so far is the essay by my friend, "Woven Between Two Cultures" (Michelle Acker Perez) even though I've heard much of it before in her Instagram and on her blog, Simply Complicated. The other one I found fascinating was "A Girl and Her Guard" by Sara Ackerman. Sara lived in the Congo and adopted a girl from Congo. The essay takes place once they are living in Ethiopia and the friendships her young daughter makes with the house guard and neighbors. Oh, and the essay about the pollution in China? Chilling!
Some of the essays are funny, some are poignant, some are sad, but they are all interesting!
December 13, 2016
This is a terrific book. Twenty five women described their experiences bearing and birthing a child or children in countries other than their own. They come from far and wide around the globe and they live far and wide, and it is fascinating reading!
I found the stories about countries with cultures far from my American one perhaps the most interesting, having a baby in China, Japan, or Abu Dhabi, but there was enlightening information in the story about raising kids in The Netherlands, too. The book is full of information, as well as cultural mores, stories about mothers in law, doctors, midwives, teachers.
If you are thinking at all about moving to a new country, if you have ever moved to a new country, if you don't think you would ever want to move to a new country, read this book! Even if, like me, your days of moving are pretty much behind you, your children are grown, you just read for entertainment and expansion of knowledge, you will be happy with this collection of delightful stories.
I found the stories about countries with cultures far from my American one perhaps the most interesting, having a baby in China, Japan, or Abu Dhabi, but there was enlightening information in the story about raising kids in The Netherlands, too. The book is full of information, as well as cultural mores, stories about mothers in law, doctors, midwives, teachers.
If you are thinking at all about moving to a new country, if you have ever moved to a new country, if you don't think you would ever want to move to a new country, read this book! Even if, like me, your days of moving are pretty much behind you, your children are grown, you just read for entertainment and expansion of knowledge, you will be happy with this collection of delightful stories.
December 5, 2016
This book is an excellent follow up to the first book in the Knocked Up Abroad series. When I read the first book I was floored by the interesting and exciting stories, and so I had high expectations coming into the second book. Somehow though, Lisa Ferland was able to surpass my high expectations by finding a new group of writers with even more amazing stories from across the globe.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone that loves reading traditional "fish out of water" stories with a focus on birth, parenting, and new cultures.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone that loves reading traditional "fish out of water" stories with a focus on birth, parenting, and new cultures.
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