Jennifer Howard

“Jennifer Howard has written 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

“In  Clutter, Jennifer Howard offers a fascinating and insightful account of what becomes of the stuff that we accumulate in our homes and lives. It’s a powerful reminder of how the deeply personal acts of daily life are shared across families, cultures, economies, and countries, and a moving account of how one author’s struggle to manage her family’s clutter led to a deeper understanding of what matters most in all of our lives.” —Adam Minter, author of Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

“Howard’s exploration of one dark corner of consumer culture is quick-witted and insightful—and, appropriately for the subject, refreshingly concise. … A keen assessment of one of society’s secret shames and its little-understood consequences.”—Kirkus Reviews

“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.”—The Washington Post

“Spurred by the painful need to clean out her mother’s house, the author meditates on clutter as a microcosm of family and society.” —”New & Noteworthy,” The New York Times Book Review

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