My Father Married My Mother's Thief

Summary

My father has complete face blindness. To him, the human face is a shifting puzzle he can never quite solve.

Forty years ago, someone drugged him at a high society gala, and he spent a passionate night with my mother, Rose. But unable to distinguish her face from any other, he ended up marrying the calculating mistress who stole her place.

Over the decades, they became the golden couple of the New York elite, a shining example of high-society marriage.

Meanwhile, my mother, pregnant and unwed, was branded a fallen woman in her small upstate town.