Tag: Yael van der Wouden
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Historical fiction, intersectionality, and secrecy: Yael van der Wouden’s ‘The Safekeep’
There’s a moment, just one page, in Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep (Penguin, 2024)—winner of last year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction—that gathers its narrative threads and holds them together. The queer, the racial, the Jewish threads. Thin threads and thick, stronger and weaker threads. One page where they intersect and where the reader can…
