'The LOVE Project'

Poor Richard’s Downtown will be celebrating Alison van Diggelen’s debut book, “The Love Project”: A Journey of Intimate Conversations with a reading, and community discussion about the secrets of enduring love.

How do we find love? How do we live and love fully? And can we find healing and purpose after loss?

“Drawing on decades of experience asking deeply human questions during professional interviews, van Diggelen displays a gift for turning everyday encounters in her hometown into soulful moments of connection and learning. Each chapter unfolds as a conversation—sometimes playful and intimate, sometimes raw and vulnerable—in which ordinary lives reveal extraordinary reckonings with love, loss, desire, betrayal, grief, faith, aging, and resilience.” KIRKUS REVIEWS

In her quest to understand love and healing, Alison van Diggelen explores how empathy, self-love and personal growth can transform ordinary lives into extraordinary ones, distrust into loving intimacy, and grief into purpose. The Love Project looks at a community through the lens of love — romantic, familial, platonic — and the quiet, yet powerful bonds we share with community and nature.

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