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Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
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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, GuardianThis 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 | 0.213 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| by | Beata Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2021-3-4 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141992883 |
| About The Author | Greta Thunberg is a climate crisis activist from Sweden. In August 2018, she decided not to go to school one day, starting a strike outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions sparked a global movement to fight the climate crisis, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet. Greta has Asperger's and considers it a gift which has enabled her to see the climate crisis in "black and white." She has won the prestigious Prix Liberté, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and was selected as Time's Person of the Year in 2019. She is the author of the bestseller No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference.Together with her mother, the celebrated opera singer Malena Ernman, her sister, Beata Ernman, and her father, Svante Thunberg, she has dedicated her life to protecting the living planet. |
Our House Is on Fire feels like a new form of nonfiction, intimate and approachable as a photo album: a family memoir. . . . This is also a remarkable story of togetherness: a modern family shifting and pivoting to keep each person afloat. |
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| Other text | An urgent, lucid, courageous account. . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of the planet should read this book. It is a clear-headed diagnosis. It is a glimpse of a saner world. It is fertile with hope. |
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