Objects of My Affection: A Novel

Objects of My Affection: A Novel by Jill Smolinski

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A humorous look at a down-on-her-luck organizer, Lucy Bloom, who takes on the daunting challenge of defusing the "professional hoarder" and eccentric artist Marva Meier Rios' Craftman's style home of excess clutter - some useless and some worth a great deal of cash. Lucy, who just wrote a book, that bombed in sales, on organizing your home not only has to be more than good at her job but also be discreet. Heaven forbid if a newspaper reporter would get a juicy story out of Marva's mess! Lucy's carrot at the end of the stick is an added bonus, that hopefully, will pay for Ash's, her drug addicted son, expensive stay at a rehab clinic. But extracting Marva's precious articles from her clenched fingers is not only time-consuming but exhausting and the due date is unfortunately approaching soon.

With "hoarding" now being a household name and object of many a TV show, this is a timely funny, fictional story and repeats what we now know - we emotionally hang onto our "things" to replace relationships and brings us memories of good times & good places.



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