The inner life of objects

the long version

"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 correct 33 percent of the time.". "This novel is about our secret selves, the hidden meaning of the objects in our lives, and the extraordinary and sometimes surprising connections between the two."--BOOK JACKET.