On her deathbed, David Dobbs's mother Evelyn Jane revealed a secret she'd kept for 60 years about the man she had truly loved, and lost. His name was Norman "Angus" Zahrt, a married World War II flight surgeon with whom she'd engaged in a secret love affair, just before he deployed to the Pacific and disappeared. Intrigued by his mother's hidden longing, Dobbs embarked on a reporter's quest to uncover Zahrt's fate, and that of his family. The story he returned with, available as a Kindle Single from The Atavist, is an extraordinary tale of love, war, and how we confront the lost chances in our lives This is my first Kindle Single, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It's non-fiction, and longer than a short story but shorter than a novella. This story is so compelling that you will want to read the whole thing in one sitting if possible. I'd read Dobbs in The Atlantic, and enjoy his writing style for its precision and depth, two things that are hard to achieve at the same time in a brief piece of work. This story is an excellent example of that. It chronicles the family histories and secret love affair of Dobbs' mother and a flight surgeon she met during WWII-era military service. It's an unusually gripping tale, but at the same time there probably many stories out there within the multi-generational histories of American families that have similar twists of fate, heroic acts and carefully guarded secrets. All of the research tools available to us at this time make it possible for those stories to be finally uncovered.
What do You think about My Mother's Lover (2000)?
登場人物が多すぎてよく分からん。英文は読みやすい。
—Salena
I liked it. Very intriguing research project.
—chelsea
Fair to partly cloudy. That's all I can say.
—charlii
very quick read and interesting true story.
—gbhanda
