Morally complex and unflinching in its analysis of contemporary life and the things that keep human beings apart, Freeze tackles racism, homelessness, art, reality TV, social media, and parenting with wit and humor.
What they find-spearfishing for food, renting their car to strangers, fixing and selling old furniture from the garbage depot-is that a city gives back the more you give to it.
Carefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family's integration into a culture where large families aren't all treated alike. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart. They were a family with a plan: to live differently.
They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean. Along the way he and his family learn what it means to be a neighbor, a member of a community, and a global citizen, how to treat others with empathy and understanding as they try to carve out a place in this world.In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cote d'Azur. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart.Ĭarefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family's integration into a culture where large families aren't all treated alike. In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed C te d'Azur.
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