Amy Fusselman\'s first two books, The Pharmacist\'s Mate and 8 , weave surprising beauty out of diverse strands of personal reflection.
Along the way, Fusselman covers sea shanties and artificial insemina.
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 Fusselman painfully refers to her childhood assailant).
Amy Fusselman\'s first two books, The Pharmacist\'s Mate and 8 , weave surprising beauty out of diverse strands of personal reflection