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    Clutter: An Untidy History
    Clutter: An Untidy History
    Clutter: An Untidy History
    Audiobook5 hours

    Clutter: An Untidy History

    Written by Jennifer Howard

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    "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 more timely.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 1, 2020
    ISBN9781696602648

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      Great Book. Really enjoyed listening to this. Three more words.