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, marriage, 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, using her own life to seek out universal truths.
- ISBN10 0393324478
- ISBN13 9780393324471
- Publish Date 8 August 2003 (first published 17 April 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 238
- Language English