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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.

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[A] compulsively readable primer on living with less...The book is surprisingly intimate and often reads like a memoir posing as a self-help guide as the narrative moves between Sasaki's search for happiness and practical ways to implement lifestyle changes...By sharing his personal story, Sasaki makes his argument all the more appealing. -- Publishers Weekly Offers consistently doable suggestions on how to pare down, with reminders that there's no single correct answer. -- Library Journal Inspiring in its straightforwardness and sincerity...In the end, what matters is the thoughtfulness the book inspires. -- Apartment Therapy For Sasaki, minimalism isn't about how little you have, but how it makes you feel. Sasaki credits his minimalist lifestyle with helping him lose weight, become extroverted and proactive, and above all, feel happy and grateful for what he has. -- Cosmopolitan Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki. A bestseller in Japan, this book uncovers why we want to own more than we need, what this mentality does to our well-being, and how we can live better by owning less. -- Parade

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Fumio Sasaki is a Japanese author, editor, and minimalist. He is the former coeditor in chief of Japan's Wani Books and cofounder of the website Minimal & ism. Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins's Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

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