Mess One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act [Paperback]

An absorbing look at a mysterious compulsion.In his droll, engaging memoir,&[Yourgrau] writes with self-mocking humor as he embarks on a project to get rid of his clutter once and for all.Terrifically funny&What can we say: Hoarders seem to be hot.Yourgrau sets out to understand the literal and emotional weight of the objects we save&[A] gorgeous writer.Battling his hoarding proclivities with aplomb, Yourgrau documents his winding journey to unpack his home and mind.All of us who liveor have livedin unmentionable and unspeakable abodes owe it to ourselves to have our anti-domestic pathologies turned into something as funny and charming asA funny, smart, and moving memoir about the accumulation of STUFF: what it means to us, why we keep it, and how we deal with our personal collections. (Great book, btw.)My favorite Bohemian unpacks his life, and his heart. I will never look at clutter the same way again. I love this book!Barry Yourgrau is Americas Kafka, if Kafka were hysterically funny, weirdly relatable, and had just a little bit of a hoarding problem.Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someonewho is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.