Nothing’s going well for Eve: she’s single, turning forty, her office is rolling out layoffs, her dad died last year and her family won’t acknowledge their grief… and the whole world’s a dumpster fire.
She’s also dreading her little sister’s wedding, with all eyes on spinster-of-honor Eve. In spite of her best friend’s strangely intense warnings against it, Eve RSVP’d with a “plus one,” vowing to find the perfect wedding date. Still dateless, Eve recalls a strange story her Ukrainian grandmother once told. She ventures into the dank recesses of her basement, where bags of foundation clay are stored…and builds a golem.
At first, everything’s great. The golem is hot, attentive, and very protective. But at the rural summer camp where her sister’s wedding will be, old wounds lurk, new threats abound — and Eve’s lighthearted rom-com swiftly mudslides toward something much darker.
I Made it Out of Clay is spicy, frightening, and funny — with surprising punches to the gut as Eve wrestles with crushing grief, slaying her demons and maybe finding love along the way.
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Fiction
I Made It Out of Clay
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2023
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