Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.
He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.
Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.
Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.
The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.
A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798249627843
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798249627843
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