Safekeeping

Jessamyn Hope

ISBN 10: 1941493068 / ISBN 13: 9781941493069

Published by Fig Tree Books LLC Jun 2015, 2015

Neuware - 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 emigre; 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. Seller Inventory # 9781941493069

Synopsis:

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?

About the Author: Safekeeping is Jessamyn Hope's debut novel. Her fiction and memoirs—originally published in Ploughshares, Five Points, The Common, and elsehwere—have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions, been named a Best American Notable Essay, and have appeared in Best Canadian Essays. Originally from Montreal, Hope lived in Israel before moving to New York City. She has an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more at jessamynhope.com.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Safekeeping
Publisher: Fig Tree Books LLC Jun 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu