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.
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.
As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking.
But until Fern\'s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.
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.
She has her reasons.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle.
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
