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Hello and welcome to GabFest Reeds for the month of January.

I'm Emily Bazelon, one of the co-hosts of Slate's Political GabFest.

I am here today to talk about the new novel The Safe Keep with its author,

Jaelle Fundervout. Hi, Aal, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much, Emily. Such an honor to be

here. When I read The Safe Keep, all I knew about it pretty much was that a good friend of mine and my sister recommended it, and it had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

But I didn't know a single thing about the book.

And I actually loved entering it that way.

This is a book that has a kind of haunting at the center of it.

And so we're going to talk about the whole book, but I really recommend that listeners read

this book before listening to this entire conversation because I did really thrill to the

feelings of discovery I had as I was going through the narrative. And I think,

Al, you very carefully and deliberately kind of constructed the book to have a kind of mystery at

the center of it. So let's start so we don't spoil the whole mystery up top by talking about

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