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- Imagine your house is making you dangerously sick. Common products like paint, carpeting, new building materials and insecticides are now your worst enemies. Your bones ache, you're feverish, you suffer from extreme headaches, disabling fatigue, mental confusion, asthma and nausea. The longer you stay in your house, the sicker you get but you can't imagine how or where you're going to find a safe home. You are one of the millions suffering from the silent epidemic of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS). In Homesick, Susan Abod hits the road to learn whether other people with MCS are finding safe housing. On her journey to the Southwestern United States, Susan meets people from all walks of life. Their living quarters range from a house on stilts to tents and a teepee. Join Susan as she explores a little known world and discovers how people are coping with this growing epidemic.
- Wake up, shower for only 5 minutes to conserve water, take the train instead of driving, sit in the cube on a recycled chair, get back on the train, buy local things, eat organic things, go to sleep on a chemical free bed. For a spiritualist of the "Millennial" generation, the tedium is unfulfilling - and he looks to conscientious consumerism to bring some meaning to an otherwise stale existence. But when his mom's life is added to the exponentially expanding list of cancer patients, his liberal lifestyle feels somehow inadequate. The catalyst for the narrator is to decide if fulfillment can be attained by upholding his mom's legacy of environmental stewardship. But if he chooses that path, he would have to acknowledge that modern society may possibly attain balance with its natural environment. Can his lifestyle somehow reach that equilibrium, or are his liberal conscientious habits a sham?