Clutter: An Untidy History

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&“A brilliant and beautiful meditation on the nature of our attachment to things. Reading Clutter made me long for a life without clutter.&” —Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times–bestselling author and host of the Revisionist History podcast &“I&’m sitting on the floor in my mother&’s house, surrounded by stuff.&” So begins Jennifer Howard&’s Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Sparked by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother&’s house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods. With sharp prose and an eye for telling detail, she connects the dots between the Industrial Revolution, the Sears & Roebuck catalog, and the Container Store, and shines unsparing light on clutter&’s darker connections to environmental devastation and hoarding disorder. In a confounding age when Amazon can deliver anything at the click of a mouse and decluttering guru Marie Kondo can become a reality TV star, Howard&’s bracing analysis has never been timelier. &“In her stern and wide-ranging new manifesto, Clutter: An Untidy History, journalist Jennifer Howard takes the anti-clutter message a step further. Howard argues that decluttering is not just a personally liberating ritual, but a moral imperative, a duty we owe both to our children and to the planet.&” —Jennifer Reese, The Washington Post &“Blending her personal experience and her research, Howard creates an engaging narrative that is colored by her investment in understanding hoarding in all of its complexities.&” —Linda Levitt, PopMatters
Copyright:
2020

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781948742870
Related ISBNs:
9781948742726
Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Jennifer Howard
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Home and Garden, Psychology, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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