Our House is On Fire

Ernman, Beata

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This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress: her imperilled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by her determination to understand the truth, the family begins to see the deep connections between their own and the planet’s suffering. Against forces that try to silence them, disparaging them for being different, they discover ways to strengthen, heal, and act in the world. And then one day, fifteen-year-old Greta decides to go on strike.

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Publish Date: 04/03/2021

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The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg’s family back from the brink

‘Urgent, lucid, courageous … a must-read message of hope … It is a glimpse of a saner world’ David Mitchell, Guardian

This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her younger sister struggled to cope.

They desperately searched for answers, and began to see how their children’s suffering reached far beyond medical diagnoses. This crisis was not theirs alone: they were burned-out people on a burned-out planet. And so they decided to act.

Our House is on Fire shows how, amid forces that tried to silence them, one family found ways to strengthen, heal, and gain courage from the love they had for each other – and for the living world. It is a parable of hope and determination in an emergency that affects us all.

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Weight 213 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 16 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

277

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

363.70092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K