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Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
Maybe someday
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90/100Author:
Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg, Svante Thunberg
Publisher:
Allen Lane
Date:
March 17, 2020
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 Gretaâs distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet.
What The Reviewers Say
...an urgent, lucid, courageous account.
...an unflinching look at both [Greta's] family cosmos and the civilisation that it is embedded within.
It's...like a new form of nonfiction, intimate and approachable as a photo album: a family memoir.
It makes for a fascinating, if slightly chaotic read, jumping between chapters on Malena’s career as an opera singer, Greta and Beata’s problems, and the climatic havoc humanity is wreaking on the planet. At times, it feels like there is more than one book here. I was not especially interested in Greta’s mother’s mission to 'take high culture down a notch'; I wanted to understand what drives the teenager who finally got the world to talk about climate change.
