Praise for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves “A gripping, big-hearted book.through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”-Khaled Hosseini In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date-a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. But until Fern’s expulsion.she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister.
“I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. Stripping off the protective masks that have hidden truths too painful to acknowledge, in the end, "Rosemary" truly is for remembrance.The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. With some guile, she guides us through the darkness, penetrating secrets and unearthing memories, leading us deeper into the mystery she has dangled before us from the start. She's smart, vulnerable, innocent, and culpable.
Over the years, she's managed to block a lot of memories. She was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half, and I loved her as a sister." Rosemary was not yet six when Fern was removed. But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a moment alone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister.
"It's never going to be the first thing I share with someone. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel. From the New York Times - bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one.
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