Safekeeping A Novel
Safekeeping A Novel by Jessamyn Hope, published by Fig Tree Books in 2014, is a literary work that explores themes of love, loss, and the courage required to start anew. Set in 1994, the story follows Adam, a drug addict from New York City, who arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. He seeks to atone for a past crime by returning the heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved during his time as a Holocaust refugee, but the journey to locate her proves to be more complex than he anticipated.
Readers will encounter a diverse cast of characters on the kibbutz, including Ulya, a Soviet émigrée; Farid, a Palestinian farmhand; and Ziva, the founding Socialist Zionist. Each character grapples with their own struggles and aspirations, creating a tapestry of intertwined fates driven by love, hostility, hope, and fear. The narrative delves into the significance of the brooch, which carries a rich history, and poses profound questions about the search for meaning and happiness in a transient world. This edition spans 371 pages and is presented in English.
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A dazzling debut novel about love, loss, and the courage it takes to start 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 redress a past crime, he must give the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. But first, he has to track this mystery woman down–a task that proves more complicated than expected.
On the kibbutz Adam joins other lost souls: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet émigrée; 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 Socialist Zionist firebrand who founded the kibbutz. Driven together by love, hostility, hope, and fear, their fates become forever entangled as they each get one last shot at redemption.
In the middle of that fateful summer glows the magnificent 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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