Why read No Biking in the House Without a Helmet?

Book cover of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet: 9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family

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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,…

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1 author picked No Biking in the House Without a Helmet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Leslie Morgan Steiner

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I love funny, realistic books about motherhood. This account of how the author and her husband adopted five children from Africa (in addition to their four biological children) was hilarious, poignant, and real.

I laughed out loud in every chapter and cried a few times. Melissa Fay Greene is a respected journalist, and I loved seeing a far more personal aspect of her life and writing.

From Leslie's 3 favorite reads in 2023.