A review by nectarine_waffle
The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman
5.0
I read this in my early twenties and one particular anecdote stuck with me, a paragraph about the author and a moment when she is exercising on the elliptical machine a few weeks after her father died, and she feels his presence there in the air all of a sudden.
Anyway, this is a memoir written in the style of disconnected paragraphs similar to [book: Dept. of Speculation], and it's about the death of the author's father and her attempts to get pregnant, interspersed with snippets from her father's WWII diary of being a pharmacist's mate on a merchant marine ship. It's immediate and thoughtful and engaging and holds up well 15 years later.
Anyway, this is a memoir written in the style of disconnected paragraphs similar to [book: Dept. of Speculation], and it's about the death of the author's father and her attempts to get pregnant, interspersed with snippets from her father's WWII diary of being a pharmacist's mate on a merchant marine ship. It's immediate and thoughtful and engaging and holds up well 15 years later.