Pharmacist's Mate / 8

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Amy Fusselman's first two books, The Pharmacist's Mate and 8, weave surprising beauty out of diverse strands of personal reflection. Half memoir and half philosophical improvisation, each focuses loosely on a relationship with a man in the author's life: The Pharmacist's Mate with her recently deceased father, and 8 with "my pedophile" (as Fusselma

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"It is impossible not to surrender to Amy Fusselman's lovely, haunting voice and strange meditations."
Amanda Davis

"The writer's skill she deftly weaves together her spurts of diary-style insight with passages from her dad's journals circa World War II quickly shines through. The loss of a loved one, especially a parent, inevitably forces a person to examine her own mortality, which Fusselman does with wry humor and a sense of wonder."The Washington Post

"The Pharmacist's Mate and 8 changed me, just a little bit, the way I always hope a book will."SF Weekly

Author Bio

Amy Fusselman lives in New York City. She writes an occasional column called "Family Practice" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.