Three Books. One Arc.

Kid’s BooksParenting abroad bookMaternity Abroad Book

Jun 17

People sometimes ask which book to start with. Honest answer: it does not matter. This is not Lord of the Rings.

If you are pregnant abroad right now, start with Maternity Abroad. It is the practical one. What to ask your doctor, how the system works, what nobody tells you about giving birth somewhere new, and why the pharmacy will not understand you no matter how confidently you point.

All of the book of the author Jessica Gabrielle

If you have a toddler adjusting to a new country, the My First American Coloring Book is for her. 101 illustrations of everyday American life, so the school bus and the mailbox and the pumpkin on the porch feel familiar before she has to navigate them herself. Comes with crayons. Does not come with the part where she adapts faster than you and you have complicated feelings about that.

And if the logistics are mostly sorted, the robot vacuum has earned its keep, and you have started noticing something quieter underneath it all, the sense that you are not quite who you were and you genuinely cannot pinpoint when that happened, that is Parenting Unpacked.

And if you are wondering why I wrote them, here is the honest answer…I used to be ashamed to say it but not anymore: selfishness. I could not find anything like them, so I wrote them. I just kept writing the next thing I needed, and apparently my life has a three act structure.

Start wherever you are.

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.

Three Books. One Arc.

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