Wee! Parenting Unpacked Is Number One on Amazon Brasil.

Parenting abroad book
Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk

I want to precise about what that means before I say anything else.

The badge appeared in the category Importados de Emigração e Imigração, imported books on emigration and immigration, on Amazon Brasil. Number one. Still live as of this post.

I did not target Brazil, run a campaign there, or translate the book into Portuguese. Parenting Unpacked is in English and Brazil found it anyway, in the category that describes exactly what the book is about, which is what happens to a person when they move countries and the life they built somewhere else has to be rebuilt somewhere new.

I have been sitting with this for a while trying to understand it and I think I do, actually. Brazil has one of the largest diaspora communities in the world. Brazilians are everywhere, in Switzerland, in Germany, in Portugal, in the United States, in Mexico, raising children in countries that were not built for them, navigating systems they did not grow up inside, experiencing the loss of felt competence, the specific disorientation of a life that no longer responds the way it used to, while trying to hold everything together.

That reader has always been there. Parenting Unpacked is the book written specifically for her experience.

Number one in Importados de Emigração e Imigração on Amazon Brasil.

I started working at fourteen. I walked places to save bus money. I moved abroad when everyone I knew stayed back. I wrote Parenting Unpacked five times before it was right.

This is what that adds up to.

Parenting Unpacked is available now on Amazon worldwide in paperback and Kindle.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

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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