Gabriella Van Rij: 5 books

¿Alguna vez se te borra? No, nunca... Nunca me voy a acostumbrar a las malas palabras. Nunca me voy a acostumbrar a la maldad extrema. Siempre me voy a preguntar, “¿Qué están cuchicheando?” Seguiré fingiendo que no me importa. ¡Pero vaya que sí me importa! Conozca a Gabriella,...

Does it ever go away? No, it doesn’t… I’ll never get used to the bad words. I’ll never get used to the extreme meanness. What are they whispering? I’ll continue to pretend not to care. But, boy, do I care… Meet three-year-old Gabriella, adopted from Pakistan into a Dutch...

Most of us know we can stand to improve our communication style… but how? And what if we don’t know what we are doing wrong?In Gabriella’s third and most recent book (based on one of her popular presentations of the same name), we are shown hilarious scenarios of communication gone awry,...

Over a series of interviews set against the backdrop of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Gabriella shares with journalist Mark Grijsbach an honest and mesmerizing account of what it was like to be one of the first cross-cultural adoptions in the 1960s. Young Gabriella’s struggles with...

Nacida en una familia musulmana, educada católica... De un orfanato, a una familia diplomática... De comidas modestas, a cenas de dos platos y postre con cubiertos de plata... Nacida en Pakistán, criada en Europa... Todos los días teniendo que defenderme en el patio de la escuela: “¿Esa...