Our children face an environment more threatening to their health than any generation in history.  Sandra Steingraber confronts this crisis with precise science and a lyrical, witty, moving memoir.  Each lively chapter of this unique book focuses on one of the universals of childhood–milk, laundry, pizza, homework, the “Big Talk”–and explores the hidden, social political, and historical forces behind it.  Throughout, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.

"This could be the most important and inspiring parenting book ever written.  Protecting children from the poisons that surround them cannot be left to conscientious mothers and fathers alone.  It must instead become our society’s highest collective priority.”

—Naomi Klein; author of The Shock Doctrine