‘GLOBAL MOM’ New Parenting Memoir Spans Eight Countries, Offers Intimate Peek at One Family’s Nomadic Life One Adventure at a Time
SANGER, Calif. (PRWEB) July 16, 2013 -- For anyone traveling internationally with children, from everyday adventurers to military service men and women, and for anyone who loves a riveting family tale, Melissa Dalton-Bradford’s GLOBAL MOM, A MEMOIR: EIGHT COUNTRIES, SIXTEEN ADDRESSES, FIVE LANGUAGES, ONE FAMILY (Familius, July 2013) is an intimate and colorfully-narrated peek inside the nomadic life of a family of six. Eloquently written, GLOBAL MOM is both hilarious and painfully honest, a story of motherhood under unique, cross-cultural circumstances.
GLOBAL MOM spans 20 years and while it covers Dalton-Bradford giving birth in a château in Versailles and singing jazz on Norwegian TV to navigating the traffic patterns of Singapore, it also covers the ultimate passage—from life to death as Melissa’s firstborn son at the age of 18, died when he tried to save the life of a college classmate trapped in a lethal whirlpool.
With her husband and their four children, Dalton-Bradford spent years country-hopping: From Norway’s Northern Lights and the City of Light in Paris, to the speed of light of the Autobahn in Munich, to the deep tropics of Southeast Asia and the elevations of the Swiss Alps. This multicultural tale includes:
• Giving birth in a chateau in Versailles
• Singing jazz on Norwegian TV
• Living on an island in a fjord
• Judging an Indonesian beauty contest
• Navigating the labyrinth of French bureaucracy and the traffic patterns of Singapore, and
• Sitting around a big pine table where the whole family learns languages, cultures and cuisines—where they learn to love this complex and diverse world and, most importantly, each other.
In addition to telling grand stories of extraordinary adventures, GLOBAL MOM also serves as a wonderful guidebook for parents traveling internationally with children.
“GLOBAL MOM 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," According to Paula Caligiuri, P.h.D., author CULTURAL AGILITY: BUILDING A PIPELINE OF SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL PROFESSIONALS.
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 US, Scandinavia, Central Europe, and South East Asia. She and her husband raised their family of four children in Hong Kong, Vienna, Oslo, Paris, Munich, Singapore, and Geneva, Switzerland.
About the Publisher: Familius is a transmedia publisher who publishes for marriage, parenting, family fun, education, health and wellness, and children. The Familius mission is to help families be happy. We connect families with the books, e-books, videos, articles, and apps they need to build successful marriages and families. Let's Talk Family.
Book Details:
Title: Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One Family
Author: Melissa Bradford
Publisher: Familius
Publication: July 2013
Price: $17.95
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