num_pages: 232
description: Like Henry David Thoreau but with Wi-Fi.  Boston Globe What if everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want? Twenty-something suit-clad and upwardly mobile Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn't anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism...and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since Millburn now 32 has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream he jettisoned most of his material possessions paid off loads of crippling debt and walked away from his six-figure career. So when everything was gone what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book Everything That Remains is the touching surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending uplifting and deeply personal this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus Millburn's best friend of twenty years.
language: English
title: Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
publisher: Asymmetrical Press