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This Messy Mobile Life: How a MOLA Can Help Globally Mobile Families Create a Life by Design

This Messy Mobile Life: How a MOLA Can Help Globally Mobile Families Create a Life by Design - Paperback

by Mariam N. Ottimofiore
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mariam N. OttimofiorePublish date:2019-04-11Pages:334
Language:EnglishPublisher:Springtime BooksISBN-13:9781999304010ISBN-10:1999304012UPC:9781999304010Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Marriage & FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCCFMB2SH1

Do your family dinners happen in more than one language? Do you celebrate Christmas and Eid? Do you and your family feel at home in more than one country? If so, then you may be a MOLA Family and yes, this multicultural, multilingual, mobile life can get a little 'messy.'

In South America, a mola is a shirt made from intricately stitched layers of patterns and cloth. Worn with pride, it represents who you are - inside and out. Mariam Ottimofiore presents a mola as the perfect metaphor for globally mobile families living between cultures, countries, languages, nationalities, identities and homes, who find their story hard to articulate. She has created the MOLA tool to help global families design and show their stories to the world. This is your 'life by design.'

Pakistan-born Mariam is a writer, researcher and expatriate family specialist who grew up and lived in nine countries. Her husband is German/Italian and together they have raised their children in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Raw, honest, inspiring and uplifting, This Messy Mobile Life comprises personal reflection, expert advice and survey research to help you take your global family from mess to mola.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Springtime BooksISBN-13:9781999304010ISBN-10:1999304012UPC:9781999304010Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Marriage & FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCCFMB2SH1
Ottimofiore, Mariam N.: - Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore is a Pakistani expat author, writer, researcher and economist. When she was 19 years old, she left her home in Karachi with a blue suitcase and a one-way ticket to Boston. She has lived in nine countries as an expat child and an expat adult: The Kingdom of Bahrain, the United States, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Ghana. 17 years and four continents later, her life on the move is messy. A 40-foot container, an expat husband from another corner of the world and two children born 3,000 miles apart have added complexity, challenges and many joys to living a multicultural, multilingual and multi-mobile life. She currently lives in Accra, Ghana, with her German/Italian husband and her German-Pakistani-Italian kids, born in Singapore and Dubai. Passionate about languages and cultures, Mariam speaks fluent Urdu, English, Hindi and German with some Italian, Danish and Arabic on the side. She is an expert at making embarrassing mistakes in every new language she picks up, is perpetually lost in every new city she calls home and can never remember her new address or where she packed those suede boots!
Publisher: Springtime Books

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