The book is a personal account of the challenges faced by one family without Chinese consumer goods. In an accessible way, the book will shed light on China's reach into the daily lives of ordinary people. The author's reporting (based in part on her experience as a business writer) will offer insights into the "business".

Praise for A Year Without "Made in China"

"A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's fastest-growing economy." — Bloomberg News

"A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's fastest-growing economy." —Bloomberg News

"The West's dependence on Chinese exports neatly summed up."—The Daily Telegraph

"What the year-long experiment did achieve was to switch on Bongiorni as a consumer and make her alive to the complexities and shifting power of the international economy." —Financial Times

"A fascinating and entertaining look at just how much of??a challenge an average consumer faces . . . to avoid buying Chinese goods."—Supply Management

"Bongiorni is a graceful, self-deprecating writer, and her comic adventures in self-imposed inconvenience cast an interesting sideways glance at the personal effects of globalism."—Publishers Weekly

A Year Without "Made in China" provides you with a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining account of how the most populous nation on Earth influences almost every aspect of our daily lives. Drawing on her years as an award-winning journalist, author Sara Bongiorni fills this book with engaging stories and anecdotes of her family's attempt to outrun China's reach–by boycotting Chinese made products–and does a remarkable job of taking a decidedly big-picture issue and breaking it down to a personal level.