num_pages: 192
description: A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood (of three!) by the age of 26; the joys and frustrations of three marriages; and the death of her second husband, who was her best friend. The stories made of these incidents are startling in their clarity and reassuring in their wisdom.This is a book in which silence speaks as eloquently as what is revealed. Openhearted and effortlessly funny, these brilliantly selected glimpses of the arc of a life are, in an age of excessive confession and recrimination, a welcome tonic.
language: English
title: Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
titlecomplete: Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
genres: Autobiography, Short Stories, Biography Memoir, Biography, True Story, Writing, Nonfiction, Memoir, American, Essays
ratings_count: 1767
publisher: Anchor