A01=Mary Lee Coe Fowler
Author_Mary Lee Coe Fowler
Biography
Biography blended with history
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Coming to terms with absence
Daughter's search for her father
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Family secrets and silence
Grief and healing
Intergenerational trauma
Loss and remembrance
Memoir
Military families
Military loss and legacy
Military memoir
Naval service at sea
Pacific Theater
Personal history and discovery
Personal narrative and history
Submarine warfare
U.S. Navy submarines
USS Cisco
War and memory
Wartime sacrifice
Women's life writing
World War II history
World War II submariners
Product details
- ISBN 9780817360832
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2023
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea
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 what happened to him and his crew, and why—and also 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 communiquÉs; 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. Beautifully written, Fowler’s memoir reveals what she eventually learned: of the perils and harships of submarine service in wartime, of the tragic irony of how her father’s sub was probably lost, and of the long-term damage experienced by the families of those who do not come home from war.
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 what happened to him and his crew, and why—and also 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 communiquÉs; 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. Beautifully written, Fowler’s memoir reveals what she eventually learned: of the perils and harships of submarine service in wartime, of the tragic irony of how her father’s sub was probably lost, and of the long-term damage experienced by the families of those who do not come home from war.
