Still Love in Strange Places : A Memoir

by KEPHART BETH

• ISBN13: 9780393050745
• ISBN10: 0393050742
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

A love story and a journey across the continents of marriage. When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the place he came froman exotic coffee farm high in the jungle hills of El Salvador, a place of terrifying myths and even more frightening realities, of civil war and devastating earthquakes. Yet, love, she finds, means taking in not only the stranger who is one's lover but also a stranger's historyin this case, a country, language, people, and culture utterly foreign to a young American woman. Kephart's transcendently lyrical prose (often compared to the work of Annie Dillard) has already made her a National Book Award finalist. In each of her memoirs she has written about love, using her own life to seek out universal truths. In this new work, gorgeously illuminated with her own photographs, Kephart offers her testament to the ties that bind: to the loveby choiceof a man, and the loveby necessityof the place he comes from. Reading group guide included. 19 b/w photographs.

Author Biography

Beth Kephart is the author of Into the Tangle of Friendship and the National Book Award finalist A Slant of Sun. She lives in Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Prologue	9	(8)
Torn Photograph, Sepia Stained	17	(8)
Beginnings	25	(10)
Survival	35	(16)
Home	51	(10)
St. Anthony	61	(10)
Divisions	71	(16)
Art	87	(10)
Luck	97	(16)
Freedom	113	(12)
Certainty	125	(14)
Blood Lines	139	(8)
Departure	147	(8)
War	155	(22)
Spanish	177	(10)
Beans	187	(20)
Beginnings, Again	207	(16)
Appreciations	223	(1)
Acknowledgments	223