Our house is on fire : scenes of a family and a planet in crisis / Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, and Beata Ernman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2020]Edition: First large print editionDescription: 400 pages (large print) ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593294987
- 059329498X
- Scener ur hjärtat. English
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Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | 363.7387 E71 | Available | 33111009633260 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The story of how an unknown young girl in Sweden, with her family at her side, became the leader of an international movement
When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet.
Steered by Greta's determination to understand the truth and generate change, they began to see the deep connections between their own suffering and the planet's. Written by a remarkable family and told through the voice of an iconoclastic mother, Our House Is on Fire is the story of how they fought their problems at home by taking global action. And it is the story of how Greta decided to go on strike from school, igniting a worldwide rebellion.
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 imperiled 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.