No Biking in the House Without a Helmet: 9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374533380)

When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia."

Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. But she and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers."

A celebration of parenthood; an ingathering of children, through birth and out of loss and bereavement; a relishing of moments hilarious and enlightening--No Biking in the House Without a Helmet is a loving portrait of a unique twenty-first-century family as it wobbles between disaster and joy.

Author: Melissa Fay Greene
ISBN-10: 0374533385
ISBN-13: 9780374533380
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.69h x 5.72w x 0.99d