Patty Wetli is a freelance writer based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Brevity and the Front Porch Journal and she covers the sweets beat for the Center Square Journal, a hyperlocal news website. If you're an 8-year-old and play with science kits, you might know her better as the author of instruction guides for things like Disgusting Body Science.
I’d always assumed, mistakenly it turns out, that the book was about a sunken boat, with a vague notion that it maybe also had something to do with World War…