Safekeeping - Jessamyn Hope
Category: Novel
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults
Safekeeping, Jessamyn Hopes luminous, irreverent, and ambitious first novel, shows how a single item a medieval brooch made by a Jewish artisan for his wife connects people across time and history. Full of romance, tragedy, betrayal, and the constant reminder that chaos is a driving force in everyones story, Safekeeping is a wise and memorable debut by a novelist of great talent and originality. The Boston Globe, Its 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 migr; 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 So
