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The TLS: “Coming Clean” (review)

November 27, 2020

In the TLS, writer Beejay Silcox writes about CLUTTER and “mess as an emotional and cultural problem”:

“Neuroses and trauma may have helped to bury Howard’s mother in domestic rubble, but so did an insatiable, deep-rooted, and increasingly unsustainable, cultural hunger to own. ‘The chaos of my mother’s house, then, can be read as a microcosm of a much bigger mess.’”

Read the full review.

Filed Under: Clutter, In the Press Tagged With: book reviews, clutter, TLS

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