📚✨ Maternity Abroad Featured at Livraria Tesouro in Crissier, Switzerland

Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk

Today was one of those unforgettable moments for any author — seeing my book, Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land, proudly displayed at the warm and welcoming Livraria Tesouro in Crissier, Switzerland. A cozy literary café where stories come alive over books and coffee.

But it wasn’t just a visit — it was a gathering of hearts. Conversations with fellow expat parents turned into reflections about identity, belonging, and the unseen layers of becoming a parent far from home.

✨ Seeing my book among other meaningful reads felt like a full-circle moment. What started as a solitary journey has now touched readers in over 13 countries.

Book Maternity Abroad on display at the Livraria Tesouro in Switzerland

📍 Where to Find It?

You can now buy Maternity Abroad directly from Livraria Tesouro in Crissier — in person or by special order.

💬 Let’s Connect:

Have you read Maternity Abroad? Visited the store? Leave a comment below or tag @livrariatesouro.livros if you stop by!

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Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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