Fiction. THE INNER LIFE OF OBJECTS is a romp through the lives of five characters caught up in the Zoetic Society's exploration of the paranormal. There's Opal Kirshbaum, an aspiring actress; Opal's painter husband, Sol; Geneva Lamb, an English Ph.D.; Poppy Greengold, a single mother into Goddess books; and guest lecturer Abel Moore, a visiting psychic whose predictions are accurate 33 percent of the time. This novel is about our secret selves, the hidden meanings of the objects in our lives, and the extraordinary and sometimes surprising connections between the two.

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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 percent 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

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