Magical Meet Cute
A Novel
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
“A laugh-out-loud funny romance with depth and heart, readers will love this spellbinding novel!” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Is he the real deal…or did she truly summon a golem?
Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock, New York. The only thing missing is the perfect guy.
Not that she needs one. She’s definitely happy alone.
That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers after yet another failed singles event at the synagogue. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to the only thing guaranteed to soothe her—pottery. A golem protector is just what her town needs…and adding all the little details to make him her ideal man can’t hurt, right?
When a seriously hot stranger mysteriously turns up the next day, Greg seems too good to be true—if you ignore the fact that Faye hit him with her bike. And that he subsequently lost his memory…
But otherwise, the man checks Every. Single. Box. Causing Faye to wonder if Greg’s sudden and spicy appearance might be anything but a coincidence.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Meltzer (Kissing Kosher) combines magic and Jewish mysticism with a searing indictment of antisemitism in this nuanced rom-com. After New York City lawyer Faye Kaplan gets dumped by her fiancé, she decides to start over upstate, opening a pottery studio in Woodstock, caring for her elderly dog, and avoiding relationships all together. Though not particularly religious, Faye is understandably frightened after a hate group litters Woodstock with antisemitic flyers. After consuming many glasses of wine, she tries her hand at some "Jewitch" practices, molding herself the strong man she thinks she needs out of clay and burying the totem under her rose bushes. In the harsh, hungover light of morning, she's not expecting the ritual to have worked—which is why it's so disconcerting when, while biking, she plows into a man who has all the qualities she wished for. The stranger, Greg, has no memories of who he was before meeting Faye. Could he be her golem come to life? Or just a handsome amnesiac? Meltzer's timely exploration of antisemitic propaganda is sensitive while never overshadowing the cute romance that blossoms between Faye and Greg. This is Meltzer's best yet.
