Still love in strange places : a memoir / Beth Kephart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kephart, Beth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kephart, Beth.

El Salvador--Description and travel.

El Salvador.

Kephart, Beth--Relations with men.

Local Subjects:

Kephart, Beth--Relations with men.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]

Summary:

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 from -- an 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 history -- in 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, looking beyond 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: the love -- by choice -- of a man, and the love -- by necessity -- of his homeland.

Contents:

Torn Photograph, Sepia Stained 17

Beginnings 25

Survival 35

Home 51

St. Anthony 61

Divisions 71

Art 87

Luck 97

Freedom 113

Certainty 125

Blood Lines 139

Departure 147

War 155

Spanish 177

Beans 187

Beginnings, Again 207.

ISBN:

0393050742

OCLC:

48256495