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Safekeeping
Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope
A dazzling debut novel about love, loss, and the courage it takes to start over. Its 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 downa task that proves more complicated than expected. On the kibbutz Adam joins other lost souls: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet migre; 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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Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope
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When you're shopping kid-free and want to keep your used book haul safe while you finish the actual errands you were supposed to be running. 🙃

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Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope
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Jessamyn Hope reading from her debut novel at #Kramerbooks in Washington, DC. Was touring with other authors from her indie publisher, Fig Tree Books! I love Politics & Prose, too (only been to Upshur Books once and really need to visit the rest in my area. 😳). Kramer's is so convenient for public commuters, with good selection and friendly staff to boot. Yummy cafe, too! #getindie

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Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope
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Excited to have won this on Writing Under Pressure, a great blog by @ChristiCraigAuthor and well worth checking out for book interviews and giveaways.

BookMusings I LOVED this book! One of my faves last year. Enjoy! 8y
ForestAvenuePress Can't wait to start it but Midge Raymond's My Last Continent is on my night stand now! 8y
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Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope

The wind blew through her hair with the heartache of choice

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Sissymorose
Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope

How can we expect to find meaning and happiness when we know that nothing lasts?

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ChristiCraigAuthor
Safekeeping: A Novel | Jessamyn Hope
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"We are all human. An artist can't lose sight of that. An artist has to hold on to the humanity. We are all pens if history, aren't we?" #AmReading

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