But the interior of Parenting Unpacked is looking incredible and I cannot help myself.
Here are some sneak peeks. Just between us. Do not share these with anyone.
The introduction starts with three words that I think are going to do a lot of work on a lot of people.
“You were competent yesterday.” Chills, right?
June 24th. Amazon. Tell no one.
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.
