I Made it Out of Clay

 If you like romantic comedy this is the perfect Chanukah holiday book to add to your list.

I Made it Out of Clay is written by Beth Kander and includes all the perfect holiday details to make this a Chanukah special.    Meet Eve who is about to turn 40 on the second night of Chanukah this year.  But even more distressing is that her younger sister is getting married on the first night of Chanukah.

Eve is still single and has had a very bad year.  That fact is stated multiple times throughout the book.  She is still upset about the loss of her father a year ago. She keeps her phone turned off and misses many text messages and phone calls.  She feels slighted by her family and upset that she and her mother do not have a closer relationship.  She and her sister are not close. 

She works for an advertising agency and her best friends are Sasha and Brian.  But Sasha is just coming out of a serious relationship that took her away from her friends for quite awhile.

Riding the train in Chicago se runs into some anti-semitism and she also has memories of her Bubbe telling her about the Holocaust.  So much trauma.

But at the top of the list this week is the upcoming wedding and she needs a plus one !  Also the company she works for is going to have layoffs.. and no one knows who is on the chopping block.

She comes home one night and asks the cute guy across the hall to be her plus one..but he is busy.

So when she is down in the laundry room late one night, she spots some leftover clay and builds a golem. He is there to take care of her and protect her from all evil. He rides the subway with her and makes her feel safe. He is her plus one for the wedding.  

Of course things go wrong and as it all falls apart it all falls into place and there is a perfect ending.

This was a light entertaining story.  There are of course so many unbelievable parts and I guess if you are going to date a golem, I should not be uncomfortable with a sex scene with the golem, but that was the part I thought was the least well written.