Coronary heart of Junk: A Novel

The town of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the kidnapping of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. Nonetheless, the sellers at The Coronary heart of America Vintage Mall are too preoccupied by their very own neurotic compulsions to take a lot discover. Postcards, fragrance bottles, Barbies, vinyl data, kitschy neon beer indicators—they gather and promote all of it.

Somewhat than give attention to Lindy, this colourful forged of characters is consumed by one other drama: the approaching arrival of Mark and Grant from the famed antiques tv present
Pickin’ Fortunes,
who’re planning to movie an episode at The Coronary heart of America and secretly stands out as the final greatest hope of saving the mall from chapter. But the mall and the lacking magnificence queen have extra to do with one another than these distributors may suppose, and earlier than lengthy, the group units in movement a sequence of occasions that result in shocking revelations about Lindy’s whereabouts. Because the mall turns into implicated in her disappearance, will Mark and Grant be scared away from all the drama or will they arrive in time to avoid wasting The Coronary heart of America from going below?

Equally comical and suspenseful,
Coronary heart of Junk can also be a biting commentary on our present Marie Kondo period. It examines why sure objects resonate with us so deeply, rebukes Kondo’s philosophy of wholesale purging, and argues that “junk” can have nice worth—connecting us not solely to our private pasts however to our shared human historical past. As creator Luke Geddes writes: “A set was a document of a life lived, perhaps not effectively or fortunately however no less than with consideration and keenness. It was autobiography made complete.”