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The Winter Of Our Disconnect
Susan Maushart
How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
Penguin
January 2011
On Sale: January 20, 2011
288 pages ISBN: 1585428558 EAN: 9781585428557 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that
having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually
communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull
the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic
weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle
to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids
didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: "Looking back, I can
understand why. They didn't hear me." For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner
table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from
the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition.
But it will also make you think. The Winter of Our Disconnect challenges readers to examine
the toll that technology is taking on their own family
connections, and to create a media ecology that instead
encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a
self-confessed single mom who "slept with her iPhone,"
Maushart knew her family's exile from Cyburbia wasn't going
to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages
fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon
discovered that the rewards of becoming "unplugged" were
more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.
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