RaveThe Washington PostMarries her comprehensive understanding of our environmental crisis with her command as a deeply emotive narrator, to extraordinary effect. Modernity has created a fissure between humankind and the natural world, as Millet illuminates; her book is an attempt to bridge that divide, a work of spiritual grounding and radical realignment ... The book unspools in lyrical vignettes, a densely concentrated but propulsive form that allows Millet to move nimbly from one anecdote or idea to the next ... A lot of ground to cover. But Millet weaves these disparate threads together expertly, reinforcing how all of these elements — our individual memories, our ancestral identities, the future of human and nonhuman life — are fundamentally inextricable, whether we care to recognize it or not ... Potent ... This is a book that stays with you.
Greta Thunberg, Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg
PositiveThe Washington Post...a more vulnerable and intimate portrait emerges in the telling of Thunberg’s origin story ... Thunberg’s parents have referred to this bleak period before, but their memoir offers searing details of what it felt like to watch her harrowing descent ... Greta Thunberg’s ascent has been plagued by debunked conspiracy theories, hoaxes and seething accusations aimed at her parents, alleging that the teenager is merely a puppet used to further their agenda — that she is indoctrinated, manipulated, brainwashed ... Our House Is On Fire is a resounding rejection of those false claims.
