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Synopsis
Fiction. Five characters connect in different ways with the paranormal. Opal, who works at an organization that examines paranormal phenomena; her husband Sol, an artist; Poppy, a young woman interested in goddesses; Geneva, a scholar interested in Yeats's excursions into parapsychology; and Abel, a psychic.
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Review
In The Inner Life of Objects crack fiction writer Maxine Combs delivers a quirky little novel with a comedic cast of New Age characters that explores the mysterious, magical and mundane workings of the human mind as it interfaces with the objects that inhabit its life. The heroine, Opal Kirshbaum, a 59-year-old cancer and motherhood survivor, runs the Zoetic Society which explores anything paranormal or just plain odd. In the few weeks during which this book takes place, a likeness of Eleanor Roosevelt appears on a refrigerator in a Texas landfill, while Opal waits for an insect in one of her husband's paintings to write her a message. Psychic Abel Moore, who is accurate only 33 per cent of the time, is invited to lecture, and the reader is encouraged to contemplate how it is that the material world defines the individual, and what, if anything, is the meaning of it all. This affectionate look at the New Age is great fun for readers who can laugh at themselves. --P Randall Cohan
Synopsis
This novel is a romp through the lives of five characters involved in the Zoetic Society's exploration of the paranormal. Together they bring to light the details and beliefs that connect, colour and compel their lives and "the inner lives of objects".
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