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 .
Belt Publishing Clutter: an untidy history, hardcover/jennifer howard
