Running Away to Home (Paperback)

from bbellthom

What a wonderful book, not so much because of the writing but the whole concept. Jennifer Wilson and her husband decide to stop living the so called American Dream and move to Jennifer's ancestral home Croatia. While reading this book I just kept thinking what a wonderful dream to be able to go t...

from tjsjohanna

There was a lot to like about this memoir and one of my favorite parts was towards the end when Ms. Wilson talked about the sacrifices of her ancestors and the gratitude that she found as she spent time in the Croatian village where her family came from. The memoir overall is a curious mix of the...

from Twink

Jennifer Wilson and her husband Jim have a good life in Des Moines, Iowa. Two great kids, careers, house, friends - the American Dream. But they had another dream as well - " to escape to the place where we could live simply with our kids." But where could that be? Jennifer's family was originall...

from BookAngel_a

Jennifer Wilson's grandparents moved to the USA over a hundred years ago, searching for a better life. Jennifer and her husband got tired of the "American dream" and all the materialism complicating their life, and their children's lives, so they decided to return to her family's village Croatia ...

from Alie

I really enjoyed reading Running Away to Home. It is a memoir of one women and her family's adventure to move to her ancestor's village in Croatia to discover where she came from. It is a dream many of us have, to press pause on our current life for a year of travel, but rarely succeed in pursuin...