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In 2016, Charles Wheelan, best-selling author of “Naked Economics,” decided to go on a nine-month, global grand tour with his wife, Leah, and their three children. “We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year” (out Jan. 26) is the result, a manic travelogue-cum-family newsletter that gamely tries to squeeze some deeper meaning from what seems like little more than a really nice extended vacation.
Charles Wheelan (Courtesy Jon Gilbert Fox)
Wheelan and his wife are determined to pass on their love of travel to their kids: college-bound Katrina, 18; defiant Sophie, 16; and chronic oversharer CJ, 13, who will probably come to rue his father’s detailed account of his pubescence. The parents see the trip as an opportunity to give the kids a taste of life outside the “bubble” of their hometown of Hanover, New Hampshire.