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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Plume
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
320 pages ISBN: 0142180823 EAN: 9780142180822 Kindle: B00B4FU6KE Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions Hardcover (June 2013)
Women's Fiction Contemporary
Included on The Christian Science Monitor's list of 2013's
top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen
Book Club introduces a middle-class American family,
ordinary in every way but one
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell,
sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the
middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a
chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and
already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. 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. Then, something
happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. 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
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