Gunk by Saba Sams: book review
Gunk by Saba Sams Overview: Jules is accustomed to strange situations. After a hen do takes her to a student bar as a twenty-eight-year-old woman in Brighton, she meets the club owner, starts working at the bar, and eventually marries him. They're together for years before they divorce, but Jules keeps working at the club. During their marriage, Jules never gets the baby she so desperately wants. Then Nim, nineteen and the adult version of a teenage runaway, comes into the picture and offers Jules a very strange, roundabout way to having a child. That journey is what constitutes Gunk . Overall: 4.5 Characters: 4 Jules and Nim and Leon are interesting character sketches that feel both very human and also watery and impressionistic. Leon is an addict who likes to pick up students at the bar. He's scummy and provides a constant low hum of disaster in the background. Jules has never had great love in her life, and what she feels with Nim isn't quite that either. It's neith...