Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicha

A spare, elegiac memoir in which the narrator sorts through his recently deceased mother’s apartment and lets the household objects—photos, cups, prescriptions, and stray letters—unspool stories about family, Jewishness, Polish history, and his own queer identity; with dry humor and keen observation he transforms the inventory of things he could not bring himself to discard into a meditation on memory, loss, and how ordinary belongings hold the shape of a life.