"This is me processing this experience, trying to make sense of this place that I landed, a place where I have never felt more alien, more misfit and more disjointed."
"Just before Christmas 1999, 1000 people received an invitation (a 60:40 mix of cold/warm call) to nominate a thing of their own that they considered to be 'not worth keeping' and suggest why that might be the case." The book has excerpts of people's reasoning and photos of objects.