A review by bookwormmichelle
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters by Jennifer Wilson

5.0

This book was MARVELOUS. (Caveat: there was a little bit of language and a lot of drinking.) This delightful memoir tells the story of a Des Moines family who decided to spend a year going back to family roots and simplifying their lives--so they moved to the mother's great-grandmother's tiny mountainous ancestral village in Croatia. Well. That's quite a change. There, the family spent time together in a slower-paced lifestyle, tried to adjust to a dramatically different culture, tried to learn Croatian, tried to discover more about family roots. Beautifully told. This actually sounds like fun--although I have to confess, most of my family is from not-quite-so-primitive-and-archaic Bavaria. :-) (Bavaria would probably cost more, and NO ONE would remember my ancestors who left in the 1700's. Still. :-)