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By Jamaica Ritcher
| Monday, May 04, 2015 - Off the Shelf
I first encountered Abigail Thomas’s Safekeeping: Some True Stories
from a Life six years ago, during my first semester of a
graduate program in creative writing and at the suggestion of my thesis
advisor. At first, I assumed my professor wanted me to study the book’s
structure. Safekeeping
is built of three sections (“Before,” “Mortality,” and “Here and Now”),
each composed of vignettes, some three or four pages in length, and many as
short as a paragraph.
This structure—vignettes, collected and individually
titled—conveys Thomas’s motivation: to take stock of memories and moments
previously unorganized, perhaps even hidden or ignored, to give her past
meaning and achieve what is suggested in the epigraph, taken from the
Beatles song “Hey Jude”: Take a sad song and make it better... READ
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