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 Robert, 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.