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WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
By: Karen Joy Fowler
Plume
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0142180823
EAN: 9780142180822
Kindle: B00B4FU6KE
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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. βI was raised with a chimpanzee,β she explains. βI tell you Fern was a chimp and already you arenβt thinking of her as my sister. But until Fernβs expulsion β¦ she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.β 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 dateβa tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking
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