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“This could have been a memoir about loss, and a mother's grief. It would have been natural and understandable, given that her son, Parker Bradford, died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of eighteen. Any parent brave enough to try to imagine that loss would have forgiven Melissa Dalton Bradford for being unable to write from any other point of view than that of sorrow. Moreover, I have no doubt that book would also have been worth reading, since Melissa Dalton-Bradford writes very well. Instead, here is a rich, frank and funny book in which the essentials of family and friendship and community are combined with interesting travelogue and the best kind of spiritual writing. In short, this is a book about love."" —Kate Braestrup, New York Times best-selling author of Here If You Need Me ""After twenty years and eight different international relocations for her husband’s career, Melissa Dalton-Bradford has much to offer on how ordinary family moments can create an extraordinary family journey when you mix countries and cultures. Global Mom: A Memoir is a brilliant hero’s journey highlighting the challenges and triumphs of motherhood under unique cross-cultural circumstances. With honesty, sensitivity, and humor, Dalton-Bradford is a role model for all parents who will be relocating with children, especially those who will relocate for their spouse’s career."" --Paula Caligiuri, P.h.D., author Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals Global Mom provides an honest and poignant look at the unique challenges of raising a family across multiple cultures. It’s a journey worth visiting for readers. –Bicultural Mama ""The humor is self-deprecating; the pain—beyond compare. I found myself laughing out loud. . . and sobbing out loud, as well."" --The Association for Mormon Letters "". . . a stunning picture of life . . ."" —The Deseret News ""a must read . . . a powerful story . . . extraordinary."" —Chick Lit Central “After reading Melissa Dalton Bradford's fascinating memoir of her adventures with her family I am left with many emotions - admiration, amazement, and, as a mom who has done her own fair share of moving her family around, deep empathy. This is one brave woman!” —Sharon Galligar Chance""Your account of life as a global Mom and the way you describe your immersion in the many cultures and languages are simply inspiring. I think your book should be required reading for all those working in global companies, especially if they are going on a foreign assignment, or if they interact with other cultures""––Sharon Moshayof
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About the Author
Melissa Dalton-Bradford is a writer, independent scholar, world citizen, and mother. She holds a BA in German and an MA in Comparative Literature, both from Brigham Young University. She speaks, reads, and writes fluent German, French, and Norwegian, is conversant in Mandarin, and has taught language, humanities, and writing on the university level. Bradford has performed professionally as a soprano soloist and actress in the United States, Scandinavia, Central Europe, and South East Asia. Parents of four children, she and her husband have built their family in Vienna, Hong Kong, Oslo, Paris, Munich, Singapore, and Geneva, Switzerland.
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Product details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Familius; First edition (July 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193830134X
ISBN-13: 978-1938301346
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
68 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#479,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is not an ordinary memoir of a globe-trotting family. Perhaps because of the tragedy the family faces, this memoir achieves a depth and weightiness that sets it apart from other titles in the genre. As a former globe-trotting mother myself, I felt a kinship with Dalton-Bradford. She is warm and personable, making you feel you could dash off an email to her in response to a passage and have a meaningful conversation about it.Melissa Dalton-Bradford does an admirable job of distilling years of experiences into a few pages covering critical ex-pat experiences like daycare, international and local schools, culture clashes, language acquisition, bureaucracy, navigating medical systems and pharmacies, food, giving birth, friendship, job transfers, etc. She writes of these things with small anecdotes, often hilarious, but always insightful and cohesive.Dalton-Bradford articulates far more deftly than I have ever been able to express the wonder and privilege of such a globe-trotting lifestyle. She does not, however, gloss over the real costs of the same lifestyle--the rootlessness, the relentless loss, and the curious experience of feeling a stranger in one's own country.Perhaps the greatest feat of the book is how the heaviest and most painful of topics-the death of the Bradford's eldest son just days after beginning university-is integrated into the narrative without being choppy or derailing the book. Indeed the candor and dignity with which Dalton-Bradford expresses her grief and the struggle to move forward in such a painful landscape (almost like an entirely new country) was deeply and profoundly moving.I found the typos in the original edition distracting and frustrating--though I think a new edition has been printed and I believe that it has been better proof-read. While Bradford's prose is beautiful and elegant, I found it distracting at times-causing me to lose track of the story. I loved the foreign phrases which were scattered throughout the text, but they weren't always translated which made me feel like an outsider and missing critical parts of the text. Many of the chapter titles were foreign phrases and I think a translation should have been provided as well underneath the title. I also wish the chapters about Singapore and Asia had been expanded. That section of the book felt too cursory and brief.Who should read this book? People who want to travel or have ever wondered what it is like to actually live in a foreign country. People who are preparing for an international move. Expat families who are looking for sources to help validate their experiences. Anyone who is coping with grief would also benefit from this book. I will be sharing this book with my family to help them gain a deeper understanding of my own experiences living in three different foreign countries for 7 years.
Get cozy with tissue. This book will envelop you. You will wish you lived her life abroad with her family. It is a very refreshing take on the global culture of parenting and what makes each individual mother strong across the globe. I fell in love with Melissa and her family and believe she has an even strong message ahead of her. You will love this book. It tugs at your heart and leaves you with a stronger sense of the importance of parenting and the effect one family has on the world.
Waiting for the perfect moment to immerse myself in it, I knew I would love this book…for Melissa’s story parallels my story at some point. But I did not realize how much I would glean and grow from her gifted ability to rein the reader into her international world. I hungered for more as each page flew beneath my fingers, and even more as she described the experiences of tasting all the delicacies the world palate has to offer. Knowing the ending before I started…Melissa still beautifully moved me with her masterful portrayal of living joyfully with the unexpected realities life brings. You don’t have to be a global mom or even any kind of a mom to thoroughly love this book.
Global Mom: A Memoir is a book about identity and what it means to negotiate the sometimes competing influences of career, marriage, motherhood and ultimately self across cultural, ethnic and national boundaries. Global Mom traces Melissa Dalton-Bradford's journey as she seeks to find a place in several different societies, while building a family.Through anecdotes and insights, this book shares the values that help form the Bradford family as they are amplified by, and sometimes (humorously) collide with, local cultures. These stories, sometimes witty and sometimes poignant, convey the interplay between their family and the deep-rooted cultural values of the societies they negotiate. They also tell of the different ways societies have of bringing people together, both to celebrate life and to mourn loss. Even the act of entering and beginning to work within a new culture is an act of community. Dalton-Bradford writes of her experience in Norway, "It assumes commitment and consistency on the part of both the newcomer as well as the native community at large."She also writes of personal insights such as tender moments with children, "There are those minutes in life, which you ache to redo or even, if by magic, somehow inhabit again." Repeatedly, she and her family are plunged into different settings with different languages and different rules--each of which could either be just a brief stay or a permanent move. During a short relocation back in the USA she reveals, "I ached for a place where we could be who we all had been individually and as a family, for that special roughness and refinement of a vibrantly textured international setting."Global Mom is for those venturing into living abroad or learning from one who has, but it is also for those who enjoy humor and irony in changing life circumstances and who want to gain a deeper understanding of self through encountering that which is foreign.
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