Full fathom five
Subtitle: a daughter's search
By: Mary Lee Coe Fowler.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780817316112; 9780817380397
Subjects: Fowler, Mary Lee Coe, -- 1946-; Fathers and daughters -- United States; Mothers and daughters -- United States; Parent and adult child -- United States; Children of military personnel -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations
Description: "Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and troubled relationship, and Mary Lee's biological father was never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary Lee was a middle-aged adult that she set out to learn not only who her father was, but also what happened to him and his crew, and to confront why she had shied away from asking these questions until it was nearly too late."

"Fowler searched through old ships' logs, letters, and naval communiques; visited submarine museums, the Naval Academy, and other pertinent sites; interviewed old friends and crew members who knew her dad and mom or served concurrently; and slowly reconstructed the world in which they lived. Fowler's memoir reveals what she eventually learned: the perils and hardships of submarine service in wartime, the tragic irony of how her father's sub was probably lost, and the long-term damage experienced by the families of those who do not come home from war."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274).
Table of contents: title: Ghost dad; title: The search; title: Sea change.