One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

by David Elliot Cohen, Devyani Kamdar

Release Date: 09 June, 2001

Edition: Paperback

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Wonderfully entertaining!

This is certainly not your typical travel book -- thanks heavens! This is a wonderful story of a family with 3 children who incidentally take a year to make a trip around the world! Everyone can recognize their family in the well-written book! I laughed out loud so many times and read portions out loud to my family! Now all of them are reading it as well! The real test: I bought 2 copies to ship to friends! Such wonderful entertainment!

I enjoyed this book more than if I had gone with my own kids

One Year Off is a wonderful read -- a hilarious romp around the world with the author and his family. What parent wouldn't relate to the picky eater, the drama princess, the baby smearing ketchup on a stranger's linen suit in France? I enjoyed this book much MORE than if I had taken my own family, since, like one of the author's friends, this venture -- at least with my four children -- would be my idea of hell. The writing is conversational yet succinct. The places and events Cohen describes are at various times amusing, terrifying, poignant. I am planning to give this book to friends for Channukah, Christmas, Kwaanza, etc. READ IT! p.s. Those reviewers who have complained that the book is "self-serving" should know from the subtitle, cover and intro that it is ABOUT a trip with family, by a man approaching a mid-life awakening. GET REAL!