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Love: A Philadelphia Affair

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Philadelphia has been on the heart of many books by award-winning creator Beth Kephart, but none more so than the affectionate collection Love. This volume of private essays and images celebrates the intersection of memory and place. Kephart writes lovingly, reflectively about what Philadelphia way to her. She muses about meandering on SEPTA trains, spending hours a few of the armor within the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and taking shelter at Independence Mall all the way through a downpour.

In Love, Kephart shares her loveof Reading Terminal Market at Thanksgiving: “This abundant, bristling market is, in November, essentially the most unlonesome place around.” She waxes poetic in regards to the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, the mustard in a Salumeria sandwich, and the “coins slipped between the lips of Philbert the pig.”

Kephart also extends her journeys to the suburbs, Glenside and Ardmore—and beyond, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Stone Harbor, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware. What emerges is a valentine to the City of Brotherly Love and its environs. In Love, Philadelphia is “more than its icons, bigger than its tagline.”



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