{"product_id":"everything-looks-different-from-here-a-memoir-of-family-france-and-escaping-the-american-grind","title":"Everything Looks Different From Here: A Memoir of Family, France, and Escaping the American Grind","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if the cage door isn't locked?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, Meghan Herwehe and her husband had a recurring calendar reminder asking a deceptively simple question: When can we hiatus?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe answer was always: not yet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere were jobs to climb, a house to manage, a child to raise, money to earn, and an endless list of adult responsibilities. Then the pandemic arrived, Meghan's demanding corporate career became ten-to-twelve-hour days of video calls, and the life she'd worked so hard to build began to feel increasingly like a cage. So Meghan and her family took the ultimate YOLO leap: they quit their jobs, rented out their Denver home, packed up their four-year-old daughter, and moved to Lyon, France, for a year.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey barely spoke French. They couldn't legally work. And they had no idea what would happen next.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat follows is both a hilarious family adventure and a sharp-eyed examination of the assumptions Americans make about work, parenting, food, money, success, leisure, and happiness. As Meghan encounters French schools and sprawling lunches, European vacation culture and bureaucracy, cultural misunderstandings and family travel disasters, she begins to see that many of the \"rules\" governing her old life aren't rules at all.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBlending memoir, cultural observation, research, and self-deprecating humor, Everything Looks Different from Here asks a question increasingly urgent for burned-out workers and families: What happens when we stop organizing our lives around work—and what might we discover when we finally give ourselves permission to imagine something different?","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46038479470783,"sku":"9781959524267","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/everything-looks-different-from-here-a-memoir-of-family-france-and-escaping-the-american-grind","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}