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AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

In this darkly funny and surprisingly sweet novel, a woman creates a golem in a desperate attempt to pretend her life is a rom-com rather than a disaster.

Nothing's going well for Eve: she's single, turning forty, stressed at work and anxious about a recent…

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Full disclosure - I read MANY other books I loved this year (Made For You by Jenna Satterthwaite, No One Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Bell Kalb, None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell, etc...) but I also had a book come out this year! So I wanted to see if my book turned up as an option here. It doesn't :( maybe because it just came out in December 2024. So this is just my little flag to say hopefully I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY by Beth Kander will be on some folks' favorite…

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