When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country-or actually halfway over the world-to people and areas wanting to reuse everything you don’t want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells utilized stuff all over the world. He comes after the path of unwanted items through the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand requires us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning up a lifetime’s worthy of of belongings and shows that utilized stuff still includes a place in a world that values the brand new and shiny-it entertains us, makes fortunes, fulfills desires, and transforms the way we live and work.