-- Pickin' Fortunes Equally comical and suspenseful, Heart of Junk is also a biting commentary on our current Marie Kondo era. It examines why certain objects resonate with us so deeply, rebukes Kondo's philosophy of wholesale purging, and argues that 'junk' can have great value'connecting us not only to our personal pasts but to our shared human history. As author Luke Geddes writes: 'A collection was a record of a life lived, maybe not well or happily but at least with attention and passion. It was autobiography made whole.'