The Secrets We Kept Summary
Lara Prescott

The Secrets We Kept Overview

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, set in Russia and Washington, D.C. from 1949 to the present day, is a fictitious adaptation of true historical people and events. The narrators vary from chapter to chapter with a first-person narration in the past tense that occasionally shifts to a third-person narration in the present tense. The novel provides mainly female perspectives of both the East and West as the United States completed a major propaganda scheme: leaking Boris Pasternak’s banned book, Doctor Zhivago, into the USSR. The Secrets We Kept confronts themes of duality, power, knowledge and secrets, relationships, and the written word.