Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act by Barry YourgrauMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a memoir about a man's attempt to address his hoarding. Prompted by his exasperated girlfriend and her mother, Yourgrau decides to investigate hoarding - its history, famous hoarders, and different treatments - in an effort to, quite literally, clean up his act. He is in some ways successful, thought moreso in his delving into his own underlying issues from which his hoarding sprouted than in understanding it more broadly. I applaud his sharing of this experience with readers, but found some of the book purely self-indulgent. His self-awareness only sometimes made up for that.
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