| No Biking in the House Without a Helmet: 9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family Contributor(s): Greene, Melissa Fay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374533385 ISBN-13: 9780374533380 Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011922709 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.72" W x 8.69" (0.96 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Greene, Melissa Fay: - Melissa Fay Greene is the author of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet, Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, Last Man Out, and There Is No Me Without You. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award, and New York University's journalism department named Praying for Sheetrock one of the top one hundred works of journalism in the twentieth century. She has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Life, Reader's Digest, Redbook, and Salon, among others. She and her husband, Don Samuel, have nine children and live in Atlanta. |