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Pennsylvania Love Song
PENNSYLVANIA LOVE SONG is told from the points of view of Flossie, 22 in 1941, and her mother, Florence, 22 in 1911. When Flossie’s fiancé, Hammie, is drafted and World War II begins, she is caught between loyalty to him and falling in love with George, a young doctor. Flossie mourns the absence of her mother who died when she was born. Thirty years earlier, Florence aspires to be a concert pianist and is courted by Phillip, but she contracts pneumonia and eventually tuberculosis. After a stay at a sanatorium, she is supposedly “cured.” Should she marry Phillip to be taken care of in luxury or Ernest, her best friend and “comrade”? Both women struggle to combine an independent identity with love and marriage in a time of social upheaval – the suffragist movement and TB epidemic in the 1910s and World War II in the 1940s.
Reviews
“A gorgeous example of family history as story, Pennsylvania Love Song is a perfect tribute to the subtle yet undeniable connections between mothers and daughters and the quiet influence of family legacy.”
—Sarah Angleton, author of Paradise on the Pike
“Nancy Hayes Kilgore has based this richly drawn historical novel on the lives of her mother and her mother’s mother – two strong women struggling to combine an independent identity with love and marriage in a time of social upheaval– the suffragist movement and TB epidemic in the 1910s and World War II in the 1940s.”
—Mary Chaffee, author of Chili Con Carnage
“This fictional blending of the real and imagined is deftly done and enables the reader to fully enter into the lives of her characters as they fall in love and cope with the world before, during, and after WWII.”
—Carolyn Kleinman author of The Class Assignment Is Murder
“Delightful.”
—Mary Fillmore, author of An Address in Amsterdam