Himanikashyapshreedhar's Reviews > One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

Interesting idea, and the book is entertaining as a light read in bits. But disappointing for several reasons. Intrepid travellers though they claim to be, the Cohens (particularly the Mr whose thoughts we are privy to) don't exactly step out of their first world lens throughout. I was expecting epiphanies and insights, instead there is a crinkling of noses and ginger stepping around the "third world" in their insulated bubbles, sweeping generalizations and prejudices about lands and peoples from one or two impressions, a self-important tone (despite the sprinkling of self deprecating hahas) with some dutiful cliches about the 'less fortunate' which are stale, rubbery and patronising. If you are expecting travel writing, which is what I was, this is the wrong book. This is a prolonged selfie of the Cohens - the holiday email at the start should have warned me off.