Published in: March-April 2025 issue.
THE SAFEKEEP: A Novel
by Yael van der Wouden
Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster). 272 pages, $28.99
RECENTLY SHORTLISTED for the 2024 Booker Prize, The Safekeep may seem at first to be a historical novel about a complicated lesbian relationship. But this debut novel soon evolves into a fraught tale about interpersonal attraction and layers of generational pain based upon deceit. Possession of a childhood home and the persistence of memories drive the novel forward and permeate the characters’ relationships.
Monica Carter, national program director for LGBTQ Writers in Schools, is based in Bennington, VT.
