Amelia Eilertsen’s Reviews > The Safekeep > Status Update

Yael van der Wouden, you have entranced me--This, your debut? Oh, an Elena Ferrante for the sapphic -- brilliant weaving of the background into the foreground, of the buried upturned in the most vital of ways: a lattice of a story world. Had me listening to my "sad girl" playlist, listlessly kicking my feet on my way to run errands when I was half way through. And towards the end? My gosh--complex really is the root.