At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Written by Tsh Oxenreider
Narrated by Tsh Oxenreider
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About this audiobook
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
Tsh Oxenreider
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book as she traveled around I felt like I was seen as we have done life overseas!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book!! I felt like I was along on their trip seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting experiences from around the world. It filled my inner wanderlust just a little and perhaps created some too....and it made me thankful for home. It was extra special that Tsh herself was reading it! I’m sad it’s over, but like the trip, it will live on in new ways and perhaps my own travels down the road...