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June 2014
On Sale: June 9, 2014
Featuring: Adam; Farid; Claudette
ISBN: 1941493068
EAN: 9781941493069
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Literature and Fiction
Jessamyn Hope’s Safekeeping is a profound and moving novel
about love, the inevitability of loss, and the courage it
takes to keep starting over. It’s 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City,
arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire
brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the
priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he
was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their
lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet
émigré; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand; Claudette,
the French Canadian Catholic with OCD; Ofir, the Israeli
teenager wounded in a bus bombing; and Ziva, the old Zionist
Socialist firebrand who founded the kibbutz. By the end of
that summer, through their charged relationships with one
another, they each get their last chance at redemption. In the middle of this web glows the magnificent sapphire
brooch with its perilous history spanning three continents
and seven centuries. With insight and beauty, Safekeeping
tackles that most human of questions: how can we expect to
find meaning and happiness when we know that nothing lasts?
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