Bibliograph

Our house is on fire, scenes of a family and a planet in crisis, Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, and Beata Ernman ; translation, Paul Norlan and Saskia Vogel

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Our house is on fire, scenes of a family and a planet in crisis, Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, and Beata Ernman ; translation, Paul Norlan and Saskia Vogel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Our house is on fire

Responsibility statement

Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, and Beata Ernman ; translation, Paul Norlan and Saskia Vogel

Sub title

scenes of a family and a planet in crisis

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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