The Wisdom of a Happy Home: 11 Lessons from Babylon for Better Communication, Stronger Releationsips, and Family Life

What can a man know about value - and still fail to see at home?Babylon, 551 B.C. Bel-Nasir is a prosperous merchant who understands contracts, property, silver, and obligation. His accounts are in order, his business is respected, and his family wants for little.At least, that is how he sees it.Inside his own household, life has become more complicated than anything recorded on a clay tablet. Expectations collide. Conversations miss their mark. Work, money, children, and the demands of everyday life begin to reveal how differently four people can experience the same home.Over the course of one Babylonian year, ordinary moments force Bel-Nasir to look more closely at the family he thought he understood.Set within the richly imagined world of Neo-Babylonian Babylon, The Wisdom of a Happy Home weaves eleven lessons into a warm, thoughtful story about marriage, parenthood, responsibility, trust, and belonging.For readers who prefer wisdom discovered through story rather than handed to them as a list of rules.