num_pages: 64
description: The author interweaves excerpts from her father's World War II journal, written when he was a pharmacist's mate on the Liberty ship George E. Pickett, with an account of his death and her own struggle to become pregnant, in a poignant, concise memoir. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Pharmacist's Mate
titlecomplete: The Pharmacist's Mate
genres: Essays, Novella, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Literary Fiction, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 650
publisher: Penguin Books