TY - BOOK AU - Franta,Connor TI - House fires SN - 9781982177713 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Atria Books KW - Franta, Connor, KW - Internet personalities KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - Introduction -- A room full of mirrors -- Tulip -- An attempt to explain the unexplainable -- Saturated -- Small puncture wounds -- Low-hanging fruit -- Punchlines -- Everything or absolutely nothing at all -- Super nostalgia -- Longing -- The anatomy of a flower -- Claude Monet -- Buzzkill -- Floating, feeling, fading, falling -- Driveway -- Act natural -- Moments are a fiery combustion -- Pearls -- Easy as it goes -- Lucky stars -- Loud sounds and where they come from -- Hidden in plain sight -- A higher power -- Pushing up daisies N2 - "Humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator Connor Franta first captivated readers with A Work In Progress, ruminating on his Midwestern roots to his early start as a visionary and online thought-leader. He continued his soul-searching-through-a-broken-heart with Note to Self, challenging readers--and himself--to ponder the spectrum of humanity and their place within it. Now as Franta approaches thirty, life is no less confusing, but he finds this journey endlessly fascinating. Writing about confusion and clarity, loneliness and whirlwind romances, despair and elation--and everything in between--Franta invites readers back into the intimacy of his mind. House Fires magnifies a young man's emotional warfare with his past, the daze of wandering through modern times in search of purpose, and the electricity flying from tomorrow's potential"--publisher ER -