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04270aam a2200697Ii 4500 001 B564B2A6376411EA861B1F3A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200115010025 008 200108s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 020 $a 1982106662 020 $a 9781982106669 035 $a (OCoLC)1135324365 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c CG4 $d CG4 $d OCLCO $d IH9 $d JIW $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3607.E3612 $b H43 2020 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Geddes, Luke, $e author. 245 10 $a Heart of junk / $c Luke Geddes. 250 $a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2020. 300 $a 240 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Color illustrations on endpapers. 520 $a "A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star. The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers at The Heart of America Antique Mall are too preoccupied by their own neurotic compulsions to take much notice. Postcards, perfume bottles, Barbies, vinyl records, kitschy neon beer signs-they collect and sell it all. Rather than focus on Lindy, this colorful cast of characters is consumed by another drama: the impending arrival of Mark and Grant from the famed antiques television show Pickin' Fortunes, who are planning to film an episode at The Heart of America and secretly may be the last best hope of saving the mall from bankruptcy. Yet the mall and the missing beauty queen have more to do with each other than these vendors might think, and before long, the group sets in motion a series of events that lead to surprising revelations about Lindy's whereabouts. As the mall becomes implicated in her disappearance, will Mark and Grant be scared away from all of the drama or will they arrive in time to save The Heart of America from going under? 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.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Kidnapping $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Antique dealers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Shopping malls $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd 776 08 $i Online version: $a Geddes, Luke. $t Heart of junk $b First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. $d New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020 $z 9781982106683 $w (DLC) 2019027854 941 $a 29 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409034548.0 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215014247.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030306.0 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209023753.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060141.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804023932.0 952 $l DEPA173 $d 20211027150549.0 952 $l WMPC185 $d 20210819145659.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20210818014003.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323031928.0 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20210201115420.0 952 $l ELPC715 $d 20200915125107.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024203.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20200805015405.0 952 $l HNPC845 $d 20200804010438.0 952 $l YMPD532 $d 20200707011930.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20200508024112.0 952 $l DYPD423 $d 20200429010039.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20200410011538.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010335.0 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20200310042829.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20200304013510.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20200303024813.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20200303015330.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200303014936.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20200222010542.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200207011146.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200204021112.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200118010047.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B564B2A6376411EA861B1F3A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search