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This Messy Mobile Life - Out Now!

18/4/2019

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​How a Mola can help globally mobile families create a life by design
Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore
Do your family dinners happen in more than one language? Do you celebrate Christmas and Eid? Do you and your family feel at home in more than one country? If so, then you may be a MOLA Family and yes, this multicultural, multilingual, mobile life can get a little ‘messy.’

In South America, a mola is a shirt made from intricately stitched layers of patterns and cloth. Worn with pride, it represents who you are – inside and out. Mariam Ottimofiore presents a mola as the perfect metaphor for globally mobile families living between cultures, countries, languages, nationalities, identities and homes, who find their story hard to articulate. She has created the MOLA tool to help global families design and show their stories to the world. This is your ‘life by design.’

Pakistan-born Mariam is a writer, researcher and expatriate family specialist who grew up and lived in nine countries. Her husband is German/Italian and together they have raised their children in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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Raw, honest, inspiring and uplifting, This Messy Mobile Life comprises personal reflection, expert advice and survey research to help you take your global family from mess to mola.
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This Messy Mobile Life
​​An outstanding new addition to the global family literature.
Robin Pascoe
Every now and then, a book comes along that leapfrogs ahead of others on similar topics. Accessible, engaging and thorough, This Messy Mobile Life IS that book.
Linda A. Janssen, 
​author of 
The Emotionally Resilient Expat
A wonderfully welcome addition to the mobile, cross-cultural, and ethnically diverse community.
Michael V. Pollock, Director of Interaction International, ​Co-Author of Third Culture Kids
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      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Greetings from Abroadland
      • ANZC
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Bitten by Spain
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Passage to Persia
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Memoir >
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What about your saucepans?
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage With Just One Breast?
      • Turkey Street
      • Passage of the Stork
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Passage to Persia
      • Bitten by Spain
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Moving >
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Greetings from Abroadland
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life in Motion
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Unpack
      • Should I Stay or Should I Go?
      • Finding Your Feet in Chicago
      • Deconstructing Brazil
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
      • @Home in Dubai
    • Fiction >
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • From Barcelona
    • Health, Wealth & Wellbeing >
      • Here We Are
      • The Art of Transition
      • Seasons of Wealth
      • Life in Motion
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • The Flight of the Soul Millionaire
      • In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar
      • Now It's Clear The Career You Own
      • Unpack
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Tracce di BioGeometria​
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage with Just One Breast?
      • Secrets of a Financial Adviser
      • Retire to the Life You Love
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
    • Travel >
      • Jump Down Under
      • Italy, a Romantic Journey
      • Postcards from the Ege
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Deconstructing Brazil
    • Children and Young Adults >
      • Hanna and the Flying Carpet
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
    • Humour >
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Bitten by Spain
    • Faith >
      • The Art of Transition
      • Life in Motion
      • Rock of Ages
    • Music >
      • Ar Lan y Môr​
      • Rock of Ages
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