What We’re Reading: We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka
“If you could just get the human bonding right, maybe the other details…..would all fall into place. It was just a case of finding the right adhesive for the adherends. Mercy. Forgiveness. If only it came in tubes.”
Georgie Sinclair is a freelance writer for a magazine called Adhesives in the Modern World. Abandoned by her husband Rip and left alone with a son who spends most of his time on the computer, Georgie consoles herself by beginning to write a cheesy romance novel called A Splattered Heart. Through this she is able to exact revenge against her erstwhile husband.
While throwing most of Rip’s stuff out into the garbage one day, Georgie encounters a woman picking through the trash in search of treasures. Naomi Shapiro is a Jewish emigre of indeterminate age who lives alone in a decrepit old house nearby with seven cats–and a well-kept secret. When Naomi takes ill and her home is threatened by an unscrupulous social worker and two dodgy real estate agents, Georgie does whatever she can'to ensure that Naomi is able to keep her house.
Filled with Lewycka’s trademark humour and quirky characters, We Are All Made of Glue is a novel about friends, family, where we come from, where we belong, and what truly bonds us together.
Marina Lewycka is the author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian (shortlisted for Britain’s Orange Prize) and Strawberry Fields.
Review courtesy of Margot, TPL staff.
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