Safekeeping (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941493069)

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 migr e; 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?


Author: Jessamyn Hope
ISBN-10: 1941493068
ISBN-13: 9781941493069
Publisher: Fig Tree Books LLC
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2015
Pages: 371
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2015
Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 81
Booklist 06/01/2015 pg. 45
Shelf Awareness 06/26/2015