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A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this is the kick in the pants we needed to do something completely different. There will always be an excuse not to go…"And that, friends, is how a typically sane middle-aged mother decided to drag her family back to a forlorn mountain village in the backwoods of Croatia.So begins the author's journey in Running Away to Home. Jen, her architect husband, Jim, and their two children had been living the typical soccer- and ballet-practice life in the most Middle American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They overindulged themselves and their kids, and as a family they were losing one another in the rush of work, school, and activities. One day, Jen and her husband looked at each other–both holding their Starbucks coffee as they headed out to their SUV in the mall parking lot, while the kids complained about the inferiority of the toys they just got–and asked themselves: "Is this the American dream? Because if it is, it sort of sucks."Jim and Jen had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical in another country, so when they lost half their savings in the stock-market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left the troubled landscape of contemporary America for the Croatian mountain village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, with a population of eight hundred (mostly drunken) residents and a herd of sheep milling around the post office. For several months they lived like locals, from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves.

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I kind of winced at the five opening words to Running Away to Home ("Dawn had not yet broken..." ) but I wisely ignored them and proceeded to let Jennifer Wilson unfold for me a grown-up-logic-defying, crazy-ass story about how her and her architect husband looked each other squarely in the eye, grasped their young children's hands, and jumped off a cliff. Her family, like so many others, was circling the drain of the daily grind of work/school/activities/bedtime/oh-my-god-will-someone-let-the-dog-out-already?! when Wilson felt a tug from the small collection of personal papers left to her by a recently deceased relative. That tug blossomed into a concrete plan to transplant for one year her family from her native Midwest to the small Croatian village of her ancestors. As in Croatia. From Des Moines, Iowa. And her husband agreed (I know!). So off they went and immersed themselves at different paces (husband Jim was an instant village pet) and levels in Mrkopalj (MER-koe-pie), a village soaked in rich history, food brought directly from field to table, and impossible-to-mask personalities. While searching for and finding her ancestors, and uncovering heartbreaking aspects of just how solidly difficult life was like for them, Wilson ultimately unveils facets more soul-shifting about herself and the relationships with her own immediate family. This journey was daring; the story is moving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny thanks to Wilson's shining honesty and willingness to lay it bare for readers. In the end, I found myself looking inward, thinking of ways to make more "space" in my life for my family. And just so you don't get the wrong idea from my shabby Lifetime-esque description: they eat gross stuff like sheep brains and door mouse, lots of (all) of the villagers enjoy their alcohol, and the family may or may not have fallen off the side of a cliff.

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