Books by Rachel Kushner and Percival Everett Make Booker Prize Shortlist
The shortlist, revealed during an event in London, also includes Yael van der Wouden’s “ The Safekeep ,” an erotically-charged novel about a Dutch woman who unexpectedly falls for her brother’s girlfriend, and Samantha Harvey’s “ Orbital ,” about six astronauts circling the earth on a space station.