About the Author

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

Reviews

"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