Beth Kephart | The Sun Magazine

Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart lives in Devon, Pennsylvania, and is at work on a novel titled Comfort in Dying.

— From March 1998
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Where Silence Starts

Imagining motherhood is like imagining old age: there are no reliable forecasts. I assumed I would know more. While pregnant, I supposed that mothers’ intuition was a hard, certain thing, a perpetually replenished reservoir of basic instinct.

March 1998
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