Book excerpt: 'What We Keep' explores our attachments to objects
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It all started at a yard sale. Bill Shapiro and Naomi Wax were poking around the potpourri of objects on offer in an upstate New York driveway when they came across a locket with an inscription, “My love forever.” Ruminating about how such a passionate declaration ended in the rummage pile got them thinking about people’s attachments to certain objects. That ultimately led to “What We Keep,” a new book that tells the story of 150 people and “the one object that brings them joy, magic and meaning,” according to the subtitle.
Among those they polled are best-selling thriller writer James Patterson, who was once a creative at J. Walter Thompson, and Janet Mock, writer and transgender rights activist. Here, in an excerpt from “What We Keep,” Patterson and Mock tell the tales of objects people keep closest to their hearts.
James Patterson
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